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...Glimmers. It is part of the Defense Secretary's job to keep in daily contact with secret intelligence reports, and busy with strategic problems. The public is left with only hints and glimmers of responses to critical situations. It learned, for example, that two National Guard divisions, the 40th and the 45th, embarked last week for Japan-the first Guard divisions to be sent overseas. They were being rushed off before they had finished their training. The public was also aware, but only vaguely, of big Russian concentrations in Manchuria and on Sakhalin island: a Russian assault on Japan...
...fell to Ridgway's careful, crunching advance, which was approaching the important Red base at Chunchon (see map), which the Reds this week were reported to be abandoning. Of the captured towns, the most important was Hongchon, once thought to be the headquarters of the Chinese 39th and 40th armies and probable origin of the Red assaults on Hoengsong last month. TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert cabled this account of Hongchon's fall...
Last week the Pentagon took steps to dispel this strategists' nightmare. It announced that two U.S. National Guard divisions will begin moving next month to Japan. The 40th (California) now at Camp Cooke, and the 45th (Oklahoma), at Camp Polk (La.), will finish their training at Japanese bases. While stationed in Japan they will "provide additional security" for that country...
...varsity squash team won recognition as the number one squad in the country yesterday by taking the team title of the 40th National Squash Tournament at Chicago...
...long-run comedy on the boards is Mister Roberts (Alvin, 52nd W.). For heavy drama, Death of A Salesman (Morosco, 45th W.) packs a powerful punch, with Thomas Mitchell as the salesman. The Cocktail Party (Henry Miller, 43rd E.) and The Member of the Wedding (Empire, B'way and 40th) both offer good serious drama...