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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Three years ago I subscribed to TIME. For the past several weeks, I have been receiving a warlike, manifesto-styled communication replete with war maps and pictures of warriors on the cover. I would not mind receiving this new publication if I could continue to receive my regular copy of TIME as well. But if this new publication is intended as a permanent substitute for the old TIME, it seems only fair that subscribers should have been informed...
...Junior. Us men have taken over." But for the most part the leathernecks had a humility not usually found in marines. In Korea, unlike Guadalcanal and many another battle, it was the Army that had been poured into the breach first, the marines who came later. If for the past six weeks the Army had not put up a magnificent fight, there would not have been a place for the marines to land...
...crowd was on its feet, screaming "Furuhashi, gambarel [Furuhashi, fight hard]!" The home-town boy chop-chopped to a furious pitch, splashed past Marshall at the 350-meter mark. McLane and Konno pulled ahead of him too, finished second and third...
There was no argument about speculation having been heavy since the Korean war started, but the booming economy had set off price rises long before that. Traders argued that scarcity, not speculative buying & selling alone, had also boosted prices. The commodities which have been most heavily traded in the past two months have had the smallest price rise; e.g., the 128% jump in egg trading has produced only a 5.4% price increase...
...good ghost story: a pet chimpanzee is solemnly buried by candlelight; the wind sighs through a pipe organ; rats scurry across the bottom of an empty swimming pool. The modern Hollywood is reflected in a gallery of expertly drawn types. Actress Desmond's Hollywood of the past comes alive in the fantastic trappings of her house and in her visiting bridge companions ("the Waxworks"), played by Hollywood Oldtimers Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson and H. B. Warner...