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...left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl H. Dodd, 26, of Company E, 5th Infantry Regiment, a coal miner's son from Kenvir, Ky. On January 30, Lieut. Dodd's platoon was pinned down near Subuk by crossfire from cleverly camouflaged machine-gun nests. Dodd alone stood up, charged the first nest singlehanded, wiped it out. The Chinese started heaving down grenades. Dodd pitched them back, hollered for his men to move up, dashed on without waiting. The platoon followed, bayoneting the Chinese as they fled. Seven guns were destroyed before a concentrated enemy...
...told of the "spiritual triumph" of the state of Israel and of great opportunities for American intellectuals to help strengthen the new nation. "In the nest future, when the state is safety established, we will concentrate all our ability in building up a civilization...
Sean O'Faolain, famed Irish short-story writer, novelist (A Nest of Simple Folk) and biographer (A Life of Daniel O'Connell), loosed a blistering attack on Autoantiamericanism, a word of his own construction. Writing in the Irish monthly The Bell, he was addressing himself chiefly to his own countrymen, but his message would make interesting reading for a lot of other "auto-antis." Excerpts...
...began to tell of his experiences at the Naval Academy. "I loved the midshipman cruises. I loved everything about Annapolis. I cried the day I left. It was like being pushed out of a nest. I was there five years...
...Park is zoned. Each zone has its own name and appropriate Work of Art. Zones of course vary in price, and within the zones the prices vary according to their proximity to the Work of Art . . There is Lovers' Nest, zoned about a very, very beautiful marble replica of Rodin's famous statue, The Kiss. We have double plots there at $750 the pair." -Evelyn Waugh, in The Loved...