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...Hollywood Dance Hall in Yong-dungpo (a suburb of Seoul) last week, Sergeant John A. Wallace Jr. of Edmeston, N.Y., celebrated his 22nd birthday. Deciding to do well by himself and his friends, he hired the place, laid out a feast of roast beef, baked ham, potato salad, beer, whisky and champagne. While a six-piece native orchestra struggled manfully with U.S. dance music, G.I.s contentedly swung kisaeng girls (Korean equivalent of Japan's geishas) around the floor. Cost to Sergeant Wallace: $200. Said he happily: "This is my fourth birthday in the Far East, my second in Korea...
Idle G.I.s were putting up signs on the muddy roads. One, newly mounted last week, announced the exact number of miles (6,669) to the Wall drugstore in Wall, S. Dak. Lonely engineer outfits were attracting passersby with such signs as "Joe's Joint-hot coffee and beef sandwiches-two miles ahead." The areas just behind the front were crawling with sightseers, mostly flyers, sailors and civilians...
...bill was the work of a Southern Democrat-Republican coalition against him, so he couldn't really put the blame simply on the G.O.P. He tried to get the same effect by concentrating his fire on two Republican amendments: the Butler-Hope amendment, wiping out slaughter controls on beef, and the Capehart amendment guaranteeing business a pre-Korea profit, which the President characterized as "like a bulldozer, crashing aimlessly through existing price formulas, leaving havoc in its wake...
Farm Prices. Leaves undisturbed the 10% rollback on livestock but forbids any further rollbacks in beef. Allows other rollbacks to 90% of the May 1951 levels or to parity, whichever is higher. On the other hand, farm prices go up if other prices climb...
...Beef Rollback. In Mount Gambier, Australia, Grandfather George Uphill, 60, attacked by a 900-lb. bull, took it by the horns and broke its neck...