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Approximately 75 former Nieman Fellows will troop back to the scene of their one-year academic stand on June 13, 14, and 15 on the occasion of the third Nieman reunion. The newsmen will get together with old associates, revisit faculty acquaintances, and attend discussions on current problems...
Chunchon (see map). They tried to hide their movements under smoke screens created by smudge pots and burning brush. Allied planes dived through the smoke, raking troop concentrations, vehicle columns, pack trains, motorcycles and oxcarts. General Van Fleet and his army braced for the attack-with barbed wire, minefields and artillery massed "wheel to wheel." Any night the Chinese might blow their bugles and whistles, set off their green flares, and attack...
...licked the Red guerrillas. But it is like both in that it is a hard-fought battlefield; and that, as the Army discovered rather late in Van Fleet's career, is the kind of place where he can make the most of an extraordinary talent as a troop commander...
...artillery officer, "are already full of Chinese dead, and we intend to keep adding to the piles." The rumble and flash of the guns could be heard and seen almost all the way to Seoul. By the light of parachute flares, U.S. night-flying planes searched out Red troop concentrations, truck columns and artillery parks, smashed what they could. But the Reds did not stop...
...scenario is out-dated, of course. One revolting scene shows the Goldwyn girls, dressed as WAC's, boarding a troop ship while a band in the background plays a marching song, rousing variety. But most of the way, this story of a hypochondriac in the Army is skillfully handled, from script-writer to Danny Kaye...