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Last week the island's commander, Colonel Maurice J. Fitzgerald, ordered the combat-famed U.S. 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment, which now guards Koje, to screen Compound 62 and give the non-Communists a chance to get out. At 5:30 a.m., a battalion of Wolfhounds under Major John J. Klein of Houston, Texas, moved in hoping to catch the prisoners asleep. But prisoner sentinels gave the alarm...
...during the Peninsular War, and later through a modest role at Waterloo and a quiet five years on garrison in the isles of Greece, Private William Wheeler of the 51st Regiment wrote long letters to his family back in Somerset. Such tales they told, and with such a wit and ardor, that the family kept and read them for a Sunday treat during more than a century after the old soldier's death (he contracted leprosy in Greece). In 1949 the letters came by chance to the eye of a British publisher, were printed, and promptly acclaimed...
...soon picking as fast as any Portuguese, and what time the lice left him in peace was spent in tussles with the army's standing operating procedure. Sometimes a man lost to S.O.P.-as when Wheeler showed up with sore eyes, and was rigorously dosed before the entire regiment with "three ounces and a half of the bitter gall Epsom salts, and two hours knapsack drill in double quick time [to] open my back door...
...rapidly growing field of electronic computers. Transistors can be built, theoretically, almost as small as the neurons (nerve cells) that serve as relays in the human brain, and they react several thousand times faster. A "brain" built with transistors instead of vacuum tubes might out-calculate a regiment of Einsteins and still fit in the room where Einstein does his thinking...
Bugles in the Afternoon (Warner) takes a Technicolor gallop across western prairies infested by Indians who can shoot straight only when they are not shooting at the hero. The indestructible hero is brooding Ray Milland, who has been drummed out of his regiment back east for running a saber into dastardly Hugh Marlowe. Re-enlisting at a frontier fort, he is soon squabbling with Marlowe again, this time over the affections of beauteous Helena Carter...