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Your Nov. 24 cover story on Commandant Shepherd and the United States Marine Corps has captured for the reader an accurate and timely picture of one of the world's few remaining elite, professional military organizations...
...Office Hours. Any recruit will have learned the hard way, long before he is given his first liberty in "greens," not to let himself be seen with his collar ornaments "dragging anchor." TIME avoided this common boot mistake, but committed one almost as grave by showing General Shepherd, on the cover, with his eagle looking...
AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (89 pp.)-Gian-Carlo Menotti-McGraw-Hill ($2.75). A fine book version of the story Composer Menotti wrote for his TV Christmas opera last year (TIME, Dec. 31), in which a crippled shepherd boy adds his crutch to the gifts of the Three Wise...
...first disorganized days of the Korean war, the Marines were ready again, and it was Lem Shepherd who bore the brunt of getting them into the hard-pressed Pusan perimeter. The decision to take Inchon from the sea was General Douglas MacArthur's; the men who did the detailed planning were a little group of Marine officers, and the first troops ashore were from the First Marine Division, with Lem Shepherd landing in the fifth assault wave. When Chinese hordes threatened to engulf the Marines below the Yalu River, Shepherd flew to the Changjin Reservoir by helicopter...
...Bayous of Strategy. As commandant for the past 10½ months Shepherd has demonstrated the same zestful appetite for keeping on top of the situation. Though Marines are traditionally content not to reason why, he has waded at least knee deep into the murky bayous of strategic thought; he is the first Marine to sit (although only in an advisory capacity) in the sacrosanct halls of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...