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Early last October 3,000 mountaineer soldiers, well-equipped by Tibetan standards with castoff British battle gear, held the vital frontier fortress of Chamdo, 370 miles east of Tibet's capital, Lhasa. They were preparing for an orthodox daylight attack by the invading Red Chinese...
South from Taejon last week fled a group of disreputable-looking Koreans in castoff clothes, armed with pocket pistols and .25s in shoulder holsters. They were cabinet members of the Republic of Korea on their way to join President Syngman Rhee in his hideout "White House" somewhere in Korea's far south. Taejon, South Korea's emergency capital since the fall of Seoul on June 28, was no longer a safe location for the cabinet, military men had decided...
...catalogue paper was handmade in England; fine old castoff linen shirts from Italy provided its basic rag stock. The ink, pure lampblack carbon and linseed oil unadulterated by modern aniline dyes, was specially ground in Germany in 1928. A new type font was designed by Jan van Krimpen, cast in The Netherlands. Two three-ton hand presses were shipped from England to Pittsburgh for the actual printing...
Last week, with nine volumes to go, Helen Frick had made a few concessions to modern times. Up-to-date substitutes would replace the castoff Italian shirts and the made-to-order German ink, no longer available. Using a modern mechanical press instead of the slow-moving hand presses, catalogue supervisors hoped to finish their...
...Manhattan, Leo Durocher's New York Giants and Billy Southworth's Boston Braves met to answer the No. 1 hotstove question of the winter: Who got the best of December's big Giants-Braves trade (TIME, Dec. 26)? Boston won two straight, with a Durocher castoff, Outfielder Sid Gordon, winning the second game almost singlehanded with two homers, one with the bases full...