Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Latest to leave New York for the field is Correspondent Jim Bell, whose first report from Korea you saw in last week's issue...
Conferred on General Mark Clarlc, Chief of Army Field Forces, by Brazil's President Eurico Gaspar Dutra: the honorary rank of general in the Brazilian army. Invited to dedicate a new industrial exhibit hall named in his honor in Berlin: General George Marshall, wartime U.S. Army Chief of Staff. Greeted in Berlin by hordes of Germans who pelted him with flowers: Philadelphia Adman Frank Howley, onetime Commandant of the city's U.S. sector...
...Hambletonian at Goshen, N.Y., most famed trotting race of the year, is for three-year-old trotters only-and for only the best of them. Last week, for the silver anniversary of the race, two horses were outstanding in the 13-horse field. On the basis of his two-year-old championship record, E. J. Hayes's strapping brown colt, Lusty Song, had been made the winter book favorite. But at post time the crowd had taken a fancy to the Arden Homestead's Star's Pride...
...halfway mark, stayed there, and won by a full-sized length from Star's Pride. The second heat, an hour later, started out like the first. Lusty Song had the lead at the quarter-mile mark, held it under Miller's pace-setting drive until the field rounded into the homestretch, a three-sixteenths-of-a-mile straightaway. Then Star's Pride made a bid from two lengths back, drew almost even. Miller took to the whip, and Lusty Song won by a scant neck...
...field, soldiers sweated to load planes which had flown in earlier with evacuees, and send them winging back to Tokyo. This is the Pacific airlift. Every day it flies some 100 tons of men and vitally needed munitions, medicines, etc. from Fairfield-Suisun, Tacoma and San Jose to Tokyo to support the Korean fighting. Every week its 53 commercial liners and 98 Military Air Transport Service planes fly a quarter of the way around the world and back, carrying more ton-miles of cargo than all the U.S. domestic airlines combined...