Carl Mydans

This is a fast-paced, highly readable account of the first year of the Korean War-a time, which was almost tragic for the Americans troops and the twenty million South Koreans involved. As the North Koreans launched a surprise attack across the border in 1950, Marguerite Higgins, a reporter from the New York Herald Tribune, joined a group of unprepared, journalists and troops fleeing, fast and far to survive. The border between North and South Korea...

A four thousand-year-old hippo comes to life and shows a youngster the highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.