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Lieut. Colonel M.P.A. den Ouden, 40, paratrooper and veteran of service in Indonesia, was among the first to volunteer when The Netherlands decided to send a force to Korea. At the head of 600-odd Dutch soldiers, he arrived in the battle theater last November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Death of a Volunteer | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Colonel den Ouden and his men were in Hoengsong last week, holding on to the battered village on the central Korean front until U.S. forces in the north could be withdrawn through it. As dusk fell, 40 soldiers, dressed in U.S. combat uniforms and carrying U.S. arms, walked up to the colonel's command post. Their leader explained in English that they were South Koreans out of ammunition. He asked for a resupply, "so we can return to battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Death of a Volunteer | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

George Frederick Gundelfinger, Yale '06, distributor of pamphlets decrying Yale as a den of iniquity, has become as much a legend in New Haven as Rinehart in Cambridge--but in a different way. Gundelfinger has been a very real and present figure to 30 years of Yalies...

Author: By N. J. C., | Title: Pamphleteer George Gundelfinger Is Soiled Galahad of Yale Morals | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...first book, "The Ice Lens," caused a commotion on the campus. It described the evil and vice of undergraduate life at Yale. From then until 1940 Gundelfinger produced more than 40 books and articles from his New Fraternity press, and swamped Yale with "den of iniquity" pamphlets...

Author: By N. J. C., | Title: Pamphleteer George Gundelfinger Is Soiled Galahad of Yale Morals | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

Oliviously the first of these reasons is legitimate. The University cannot afford to lose its reputation mothers would stop sending their sons, and portly graduates their money, to a proven den of iniquity. The second reason is, at least, debatable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curfew for Some | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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