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Despite statements that recall of various officers did not mean necessarily that the entire Guard unit would soon be called to active duty, there was still speculation that the 26th Division might go in the near future. If so, informed sources said last night, students may be able to get discharges and become subject to the regular draft. At least, the sources said, there is such a plan under consideration...
...Allard with Cadillac engine was the combination that Erwin Goldschmidt was counting on. It got him off well. During the first lap, 34-year-old Driver Goldschmidt, a prosperous Manhattan insurance broker, worked up from his 26th-place starting position to third...
...house on the hill just below it. The smoke and dust were beginning to lift from Inchon's waterfront area. The fighting was sporadic. One patrol brought in a rather staggering prize: a whole platoon, led by its lieutenant, from the third battalion of the 26th North Korean regiment, the outfit defending Inchon. The patrol had moved in on the platoon, which gave up without a fight. The Korean lieutenant, eager to be cooperative, told Jaskilka that much of his battalion had been killed in the two-day shelling of Inchon. Those who survived had retreated in the direction...
...first to blow was Rookie Mackey. Unnerved by his gallery of 6,000, he took a seven on the 4th, heading for a shaky 81 and a final tournament standing of 26th place. He was not the only one to go. Veteran Sam Snead had been losing stroke after stroke on the greens. "I'm puttin' as though my doggone arms wuz broke," moaned Sam. As the incoming scores went up on the huge scoreboards, other topflighters began to slip: Jimmy Demaret (149 for the first 36 holes), Al Brosch (151), Lawson Little (153). But iron-nerved...
...shibboleth" in your paper. I confess that I am not up to all these big words before breakfast, since I am a simple man, and especially since (as possible subsequent investigation by secret-agents Wyant and Poskanzer will bear out) I am only an English major. Yet the April 26th letter, by the individuals mentioned above, confuses me a little. Far from wishing to submerge myself in this blood-bath of fierce partystrife, I would merely like to tender timidly some thoughts which are in no way representative of anybody except possibly some other member of the great unwashed such...