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Dates: during 1950-1950
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While Edgar Baker, general manager of TIME-LIFE International, was in Tokyo last month on business, he heard from our Korean distributor J. H. Song for the first time since the Korean war began. Song and his family had survived "the Communist nightmare" by hiding in the outskirts of Seoul during the Communist occupation. Luckily the office of his company, the International Publicity League, had escaped destruction and pillage...
Since the Korean war began on June 25, U.S. casualties have averaged one full company, or about 200 men a day. The Defense Department's latest report, dated Nov. 10, listed 646 more casualties, bringing the total for 139 days of the war to 28,881. The breakdown...
Witness Gold perked up as he began to tell his devastating story. He had been a Communist spy from 1935 to 1946, but he had never joined the party because U.S. party members, he said contemptuously, were "a lot of wacked-up Bohemians." In September 1941, his Russian bosses ordered him to take over the "apparatus contact" with Abe Brothman, who was then a chemical engineer for a N.Y. manufacturer. A few nights later, following instructions, he stood on a Manhattan street corner and waited until a car cruised up. He noted the license number, saw that...
...Square that the battle took on its real character, a fight against the police by the combined Harvard and Yale forces. The rioters began to attack passing cars, trolleys, and trucks. The first paddy wagon arrived at 12:10 a.m. and shortly after it left with the initial load five males and two of their dates...
...Louis Linder, always kind, helpful, and generous to the Yale men, took over the management. Students began to refer to the new Temple Bar location as either "Mory's" or "Louie's." But in 11912 expansion of the business district forced out the alehouse. A group of alumni, under the name of Mory's Association, Incorporated, bought the present white colonial building on York street as a food-and drink club for Yale men, and moved in Louie, the old clock, the books, the tintype photos, and other reminders, of "Quiet House" and Temple Bar days...