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ELIZABETH ROSSER...
...nights after the Korean war began, Methodist Missionaries Bertha Smith, an evangelist, Helen Rosser, a nurse, and Nellie Dyer, a teacher, were arrested in Kaesong by North Korean Communists...
...Berlin. Each was given a tweed suit to wear, and it was in these that they arrived at New York's International Airport last week. Before they are assigned to new mission duties abroad, they will have "months" of rest at home: Evangelist Smith in Marshall, Mo., Nurse Rosser in Lynchburg, Va., and Teacher Dyer in Conway...
Neither the defendants nor their lawyers attempted the kind of sustained courtroom didos which kept the New York trial of Red leaders in turmoil (TIME, Jan. 31, 1949 et seq.). One Government witness, an ex-Communist named Louis Rosser, spiced up the proceedings by recalling that the party had continually urged him to "move in" with a "well-developed Communist woman," and picked five for his consideration before he finally married one. The Government produced one startling witness, a grey-haired little old lady named Daisy Van Dorn, who had eavesdropped while running the elevator in a San Francisco Communist...
Last week, with Corporal Jerry Crump-a North Carolina boy who fell on a live grenade in Korea, thus saving the lives of men around him-Ronald Rosser received the Congressional Medal of Honor. His father, his mother, his wife (he was married six days before going overseas), and 19 other relatives stood on the White House lawn to watch President Truman hang the medal around his neck-the Misco mine and its employees chipped in to hire a bus for the family's trip to Washington. But, though bursting with pride, Crooksville was still a little incredulous...