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...Mallory Almond was impatient to hear the latest battlefront news from U.S. military adviser Colonel Sterling Wright. A near-hysterical Korean operator broke into the call. "Oh, save us, save us, General Almond," she wailed. Tart-tongued in moments of exasperation, the Chief of Staff answered: "What in the hell do you think we're trying to do? Whose planes do you think were flying over Seoul today...
...shower) to drive his own jeep to some jumping-off point. He got to know by name every X Corps battalion commander, talked to several score men in the ranks daily. One G.I. gave him this passing mark: "The soldiers here may not like him, but they sure as hell admire him. That's one general who sticks his neck out just like we have...
...skin. "The place of the tank," he explains, "is at the front destroying the enemy. If it goes back, even though for gasoline, we lose two things: firepower and the morale of the foot soldier. The foot soldier moving up can well ask himself, 'What the hell?' if a tank passes him going to the rear." Ned Almond has personally stopped rear-bound tanks and sent his own jeep after gasoline for them...
Said Hollywood Tough Guy John Garfield: "I'm not tough . . . Hell, I haven't had a fight since...
Almost without exception, the major TV manufacturers denounced the FCC decision in favor of CBS. Board Chairman David Sarnoff of RCA labeled it "scientifically unsound and against the public interest." TV Pioneer Allen B. Du Mont snorted: "The decision just says to hell with the people who already own television sets." Pilot Radio Corp. threatened federal court action against FCC because it had "exceeded its jurisdiction." The Radio-Television Manufacturers Association called a special closed meeting on color TV, refused admittance to a CBS representative...