Pacific Stars and Stripes, February
7, 1955
NEW YORK (UP)-Little Joey Kim Porcelli had to postpone
a combination Christmas and birthday celebration Sunday because of more
of the bad luck that has followed him almost since his birth in war-torn
Korea.
Joey has influenza. Capt. Charles
Porcelli, who found Kim, now 9, wandering behind U.N. lines in Korea in
1950, said Kim's baptism would also have to be put off. The reason for
Kim's belated Christmas was his long stay in the Scott AFB, Ill., hospital,
with a fractured skull. Kim was hurt when he fell off a bicycle just
before Christmas as he tried to avoid running down a five year-old girl.
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