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...good grandfather went down south in 1917 and brought 'em up by the trainload," he bawled. "They wooed, and they cooed, and they multiplied." He took cracks at the "Abie's Irish Rose boys." He charged that Recall Leader Charles A. Wagner had walked out on his first wife, "taking all the wedding presents with him." For good measure, Little Orvie also belabored the Dearborn police ("one drives while the other sleeps") and firemen ("one day on, two days...
...Communist front-line activity. G.I.s had started calling the Wonsan-Majon road, 50 miles behind the front, "Ambush Alley," and marine planes were diverted from front-line missions to protect supply convoys. The guerrillas burned the town of Kapyong and seized and terrorized Chunchon. Near Seoul they ambushed a trainload of Turkish troops, killing one, wounding two. Syngman Rhee's Minister of Home Affairs averred that no less than 40,000 guerrillas were operating below the 38th parallel...
...prayed too. In the confusion I ran across a field. In the field I picked up four radishes. I jumped into another gully and stayed there, eating the radishes. I heard the gooks shoot the other groups of prisoners." U.S. investigators tried to track down reports of another trainload of prisoners taken north from Pyongyang. But at week's end they were convinced that the bulk of the Americans held in the North Korean capital had been shot...
...negotiating, but it looks as if the U.S. might still have to wait a while. Neither Hurok nor the Austrians are yet prepared to ship over an orchestra (the Vienna Philharmonic) of 113, a chorus of 106, singing principals, sets and chief stage hands-in all, a 14-car trainload...
...that Squadron Leader Jimmy Duncan, special disciplinary officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, had X-ray eyes. "The Bull" could spot a loose tunic button, they swore, through three city blocks of buildings and traffic. Some suspected that he had seven-league boots as well. One unlucky trainload of troops who gave Jimmy the raspberry as their train pulled out of Wellington awoke next morning to find him waiting in Auckland (more than 300 miles away) to chew them out. He had grabbed a plane and flown up for the privilege. But the quality that earned Jimmy...