Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before midnight, two full companies of veteran Chinese Communist infantry slipped across the paddyfields behind a crushing artillery barrage, and struck Pork Chop. Harrold, afraid of seeming overanxious, delayed calling for help; by the time both his men and his superiors were fully alerted, the Chinese had overrun half his battered outpost. The question shot up the chain of command to casualty-conscious headquarters in Tokyo: Did the U.S. want to pay the price for holding Pork Chop, a barren hump of Korean ground only 150 yards across...
...Veteran Brown Line...
Married. Jessie Royce Landis, 51, veteran actress of Broadway (Kiss and Tell) and Hollywood (To Catch a Thief, The Swan); and Major General John Francis Regis Seitz, 48, commander (since May) of the U.S.'s Military Assistance Advisory Group in Iran; both for the second time; in Teheran...
...expressed his whopping gratitude to Lowney by sinking $60,000 of his royalties in the colony and naming it a beneficiary in his will. Jones is on the last lap of a mammoth second novel (600,000 words written) about a love affair between a returned war veteran and a schoolteacher. He took eight years to write Eternity. "Today I can do in two years with my system," says Lowney proprietarily, "what it took Jim to do in eight...
...Correspondent. In Toronto, Thomas Allen awed fellow tosspots with accounts of his war exploits, wound up charged with impersonating a Canadian army lieutenant when an unimpressed veteran called police after Allen soaked up several rounds of his admirers' hooch, made the stories too good...