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...bloody, victorious battle against three Red Chinese divisions (TIME, Feb. 26). Thirteen hundred enemy dead were counted in front of the U.N. lines, the majority in front of the French positions. Said the 23rd's commander, Lieut. Colonel John H. Chiles: "The French are some of the fightingest men I have ever seen. When they attack a position, they carry it. When they hold a position, they hold it. When you put them some place, you don't have to worry about it. They will be there when you come back...
...going to see the fightingest team you ever saw out there tomorrow afternoon," O'Donnell told the rally...
Then the conference proceeded to elect to the Party's powerful executive committee: Dr. Edith Summerskill, Labor's ablest, fightingest woman M.P.; leftish M.P. Aneurin Bevan, Churchill's bitterest Labor critic in Parliament...
...devotion to flying and fighting, modest, easygoing Colonel Hubert Zemke, of Missoula, Mont., finally decided that this would be his last combat mission before going on noncombat duty. Leading his fighter group in an attack on Hamburg, he ran into weather trouble, disappeared into a cloud. Last week the "fightingest" U.S. pilot commander in Europe was reported to be a prisoner in Germany...
...press conference in San Francisco's ancient St. Francis Hotel, he surprised newsmen with his growing sureness as a campaigner, pleased photographers by turning his handsome profile. Then, before the heavily Republican Commonwealth Club, which had heard from Harold Ickes on the day before, John Bricker made his fightingest speech...