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...holdup. Mowery heard about the case as the result of another good piece of reporting; he had just dug up evidence to help free Bertram M. Campbell, a Wall Street customer's man convicted of forgery as a result of mistaken identity (TIME, Aug. 6, 1945 et seq.). After Campbell was released, Reporter Mowery was flooded with letters from other prisoners asking help in getting them...
Thus Radio Moscow last week reported the opening of the last session of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.). Stalin, as expected, was to have the last word...
...thought of an unconquered peak. Twice in 1924, once in 1933 and again last May, pairs of climbers have struggled to within a scant 1,000 ft. of its top, but no one has made it all the way and lived to come down again (TIME, March 31 et seq...
Things had been more or less quiet in Korea's prison camps ever since Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner subdued the Communist rioters on infamous Koje Island last spring (TIME, May 26 et seq.). Then came the big dispersal. Off to the mainland went 48,000 anti-Communist Koreans, to be detained in six camps there. The Communist North Koreans were left on Koje and two neighboring islands. All 20,000 Chinese prisoners were shipped to the mountainous island of Cheju. There last week, trouble flared...
...secret of Nelson's low price is that he applied the techniques of mass production (i.e., a standard design and precut parts) to his houses plus a liberal use of the new "do it yourself" idea (TIME, June 30 et seq.). His men grade the site and lay a concrete slab foundation, which is left to dry for a week. Then a truck dumps off floor beams, wall sections and other parts of a house. In 27 minutes two men bolt the frames together, throw up the walls and hoist the roof in place. Insulating material, then three coats...