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With three other officers, Physician Sams was taken in a Navy whaleboat one night to a point off the North Korean coast. The four paddled through the surf in a rubber raft, made their way across a mine-planted beach to a village, where General Sams learned from "contacts" that the Reds were suffering instead from an epidemic of hemorrhagic smallpox. (If he had brought back positive evidence of the plague, all U.N. troops would have been vaccinated.) Last week, for his "extraordinary heroism," General Sams received the D.S.C...
...south coast is a little pebbly, but the eastern Athletic shore is one uninterrupted beach from Provincetown to Chatham. The surf there after a nor'esst storm is the best within a day's travel from Boston. The top side, Cape Cod Bay, has wonderful sand dunes for picnics, especially around Barnstable and Wellfleet; but the water is just too cold for swimming until August...
...week's end the President had seen his fill of surf and cloud, sun and sand, readied himself to fly home three days earlier than planned. So that no one would think stubborn Harry Truman was worried about the trouble over RFC or the bitter attacks in Congress, Press Secretary Joe Short pointedly announced that Margaret would be visiting Washington; the President was hurrying back home just to see her before she left to go back to New York...
Tall, flat-flanked General Mark Clark was the only U.S. general officer in World War II to lose his pants in enemy territory. He lost them trying to launch a small boat in the surf off the Algerian coast during his daring trip by submarine from England to meet French underground agents before the North African invasion. At other times, he served as deputy to General Dwight Eisenhower, helped make the Allied deal with French Admiral Jean Darlan, later commanded the Fifth Army in its long, bitter fight up the Italian peninsula. This week, as it must to all generals...
...Spain, working on a movie called Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Cinemactress Ava (The Great Sinner) Gardner, who once told newsmen that she simply hated cheesecake, had a change of heart, obligingly posed in the surf for photographers and friends...