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...trip to Korea for the American-Korean Foundation last winter, California Builder Stephen Bechtel paid a courtesy call on Coordinator C. Tyler Wood of the Foreign Operations Administration. As Wood well knew, Bechtel was there to see how Korea's orphanages and hospitals were making out. But Ty Wood had another project that he considered just as important. For months, he had been unsuccessfully trying to persuade President Syngman Rhee to approve FOA plans for three coal-burning power plants for Korea. Would Bechtel please try his hand? Bechtel agreed to see what he could...
...thermoelectric plants could be built more cheaply and faster, burn Korea's own coal. As Bechtel left, Rhee put his arm around him and said: "All right, if you will come over and build thermoelectric plants, I will approve them." For fear that Rhee would change his mind, Ty Wood promptly declared it an emergency project, and persuaded Bechtel to take...
...Placerville, Calif., a cop succeeded where many an oldtime American League catcher had failed: he caught baseball's famed Georgia Peach, Ty Cobb, 67, trying to steal home (to nearby Nevada). Booked for drunken driving and having no license, Midnight Rider Cobb was soon sprung on $315 bail...
...Sowerby. Something for everyone, in fact." But not everyone in his audience approved. Playing with precise tranquillity, Biggs went through the program without ever playing full organ. The British, despite their reputation for restraint, like their organ music romantic and thunderous; Biggsie's classical auster-ty caused some shifting and dozing. And the Sowerby piece, full of modern dissonances, caused some grumbling. But the critics were respectful...
...Ty slides in safely ahead of all others. TIME dropped the ball...