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Having built what they considered a sufficiently strong government and army in North Korea, the Russians announced that they would pull out all their troops by the end of the year (TIME, Sept. 27). Last week the U.S. began to follow the Russian lead. The 7th Infantry Division was ordered from Korea to Japan...
...with the first of eight free throws, and Dick Covey followed up with a layup to make it 3 to 0. Then Holy Cross took over. Andy Laska hit from 20 feet out, Frank Oftring put in a charity toss, and Dermie O'Connell scored to pull his team into a 5 to 3 lead...
There was not a new Truman. At 64, he was the same brisk, gregarious, stubborn, artless man, the fanatically loyal friend who flew from Washington to attend the funeral of Boss Tom Pendergast, the same engaging Missourian who tripped over his academic gown and blurted: "Whups! I forgot to pull up my dress." Home in Independence for Christmas last week, Harry Truman tramped through the familiar streets with careless informality, dropped in on his friends, doffed his hat to neighbors. Like any well-trained husband, he carefully knocked the snow off his boots before going into the house...
...Snake Pit suggests that Hollywood itself might even be cured some day of its own mild schizophrenia, which has made it live for so long in a world of fancy. It also suggests-at a time when Hollywood is desperately looking for a gimmick or a switcheroo to pull it out of-the "movie depression"-that good pictures may offer a radical but not impossible solution...
Dave Abbot slapped in a goal with less than half a minute remaining last night to climax a uphill fight and pull out a 4 to 3 win for the varsity hockey team over Brown at Providence. Tonight the team takes on powerful BC at the Arena...