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Arkansas' William Fulbright pressed Bradley about J.C.S. messages sent to MacArthur after the first Chinese attack, expressing concern about the way his X Corps on the eastern flank was getting separated from the Eighth Army...
Said Bradley: "That was the purpose of this ... to call his attention to the fact that from here it looked like they were exposed." MacArthur had replied that he could not do otherwise; besides, the terrain was such that the enemy could not take advantage of the X Corps' position...
...V.M.I.'s 6,000 living graduates were in uniform, and 57 of them rose to general-officer rank. Among V.M.I. alumni now on the Korean front: Lieut. General Lemuel C. Shepherd, commander of the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific; Lieut. General Edward M. Almond, commander of the X Corps; Major General Clark L. Ruffner, commander of the 2nd Division (see WAR IN ASIA...
...Studies; Richard A. Howard, assistant professor of Botany; Daniel H. H. Ingalls '36, assistant professor of Indic Studies; Carl Kaysen, assistant professor of Economics; John V. Kelleher, Jr., assistant professor of Geology; John V. Lintner, Jr. assistant professor of Finance; John E. Sawyer, assistant professor of General Education; Francis X. Suttee, assistant professor of General Education; Richard P. Willbur, assistant professor of English Composition...
Died. Dr. Takashi Nagai, 43, X-ray scientist, objective chronicler of A-bomb effects on himself and his townsmen; of chronic leukemia; in the one-room cabin he called "Love-Thy-Neighbor-as-Thyself-House" in Nagasaki, Japan. For years a hopeless invalid, given the last rites (he was a Roman Catholic) in 1948, he nonetheless kept on writing impassioned pleas for a peaceful, A-bombless world, moving descriptions of his devastated city's "society of spiritual bankrupts" (We of Nagasaki). Soon to be published: his final bequest to the world, Atomic Battleground Psychology...