Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea, Seoul police broke up a protection racket which sold immunity to enemy air attack by pretending to chase away the evil spirits that ride in Communist planes. The racket's take...
Eleven hours later, the private was resting comfortably between the clean sheets of a U.S. Army evacuation hospital near Seoul. The faithful medics had brought him down from his bloody hill by litter jeep, taken him to a mobile field hospital where a helicopter whirled him off for neurosurgery at the evacuation hospital. The surgeons deftly chipped away some of the skull, carefully picked and washed the dirt, bone splinters and hair from the missile track in his brain, and sewed him up again. The splinter itself, about five milimeters square, was left untouched; to remove it would have meant...
...Hollywood Dance Hall in Yong-dungpo (a suburb of Seoul) last week, Sergeant John A. Wallace Jr. of Edmeston, N.Y., celebrated his 22nd birthday. Deciding to do well by himself and his friends, he hired the place, laid out a feast of roast beef, baked ham, potato salad, beer, whisky and champagne. While a six-piece native orchestra struggled manfully with U.S. dance music, G.I.s contentedly swung kisaeng girls (Korean equivalent of Japan's geishas) around the floor. Cost to Sergeant Wallace: $200. Said he happily: "This is my fourth birthday in the Far East, my second in Korea...
...sunshiny day last week, 24-year-old Lieut. Commiskey, greying veteran of more than seven years in the corps, stood at attention while the President read the citation: After the Inchon landing, armed only with a .45-cal. pistol, Marine Commiskey charged two enemy machine-gun emplacements near Seoul and killed seven North Koreans in hand-to-hand fighting. Unscathed then, he was hit a week later by shell fragments in the Seoul railway station, went back into battle after that, was wounded again in December...
Heavy steel bridging equipment, the first of its kind seen in North Korea, was lashed to freight cars and headed south. A possible use: to bridge the Han on a drive to Seoul...