Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seoul, the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor presented Korea's President Syngman Rhee with a 78th-birthday gift: a brand new jeep with blue leather seats, deep blue hubcaps and two sirens. Extra accessory: a special R.O.K. commander-in-chief license plate -two gold dragons gazing into a hibiscus, Korea's national flower...
Recently a top U.S. commander was asked which were the best line divisions in the Eighth Army. Without hesitation, he answered: the U.S. 1st Marine Division and the British 1st Commonwealth Division. In a valley north of Seoul during the dark days of December 1950, a British lieutenant colonel had just ordered a necessary counterattack during a withdrawal action. The officer (who was killed a few months later) was holding a mess tin with some scraps of food in it, and weeping as he watched his men fall. He turned to a U.S. correspondent beside him. "You'll forgive...
Pastor Ye Yun Ho, 34, of Korea has much to bind him to the U.S. He was educated by U.S. missionaries at Korea's Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Later, G.I.s chipped in to help him build a church for Seoul's dead-end kids, and many U.S. Christians sent him money when they read about his work in TIME (Feb. 16, 1948 et seq.). Now, at last, Pastor Ye had come...
Members of the Hi-Y Club of Appleton, Wis., reading about Ye, had sent clothing and supplies for his work in Seoul and learned of his hope to take further training in the U.S. So they dug down for $500 to help bring him to Appleton's own Lawrence College (enrollment...
Last week, after the correspondents had made their protests, the 65th Infantry's public-information officer tried to explain away the seizure of correspondents' notes as a "misunderstanding." But in Seoul, U.P. Bureau Chief Wendell Merick was not satisfied. He wrote a letter to Eighth Army Commander Maxwell D. Taylor, asking about the command's press policy. At first Lieut. General Taylor's press officer said the questions would not be answered because they were "impolite." Then, apparently after consulting the Army's "ten commandments" on public information policy (sample: "The fundamental concept...