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...airlift. Some of the marine dead were buried in a cemetery at Hamhung, under mounds of raw red clay topped by white crosses. The marine commander, Major General Oliver P. Smith, uttered a brief and moving tribute, chaplains of three faiths said prayers, a rifle salute rang out, a bugler sounded taps...
Sitting in a battalion command post, Lieut. W.C. Hill thought he was dreaming. "I heard a bugler . . . and the beat of horses' hooves in the distance. Then, as though they came out of a burst of smoke, shadowy figures started shooting and bayoneting everybody they could find...
...there was no lingering misunderstanding, he appeared next day, hat in hand, at the Statler. Warned in time's nick that the President was coming, League Commandant Clay Nixon, of Seattle, had ordered: "No wisecracks will be tolerated . . . You will behave like marines." The convention's official bugler, 70-year-old Herbert Baldwin, tried to blow Hail to the Chief, but his upper dentures slipped out, so he just blew Attention. ("It was all I could do under the circumstances...
...There was a time during my stay in Formosa when I thought of murdering those active gentlemen, the buglers of Taipei. I stayed in a hostel near a Chinese army post. Naturally, the post has buglers. Chinese buglers are not to be compared with any others of my experience. They do not content themselves with blowing reveille in the morning and going away. At either five or six a.m., depending on local whim, they bugle their first notes of hail to the new morning. They do this in pairs, generally consisting of one accomplished bugler and one tyro. They then...
After World War 1 duty as a bugler, Willard Hargrave worked in Los Angeles as a newsman and pressagent. He studied furiously, read what little he could find about the antisocial effects of deafness, particularly in juvenile delinquency. His National Auricular Foundation, set up in 1938 next door to Los Angeles County's Juvenile Hall, has tested the hearing of 40,000 youngsters. Hargrave holds no medical degree but has turned himself into an expert audiometrist, has lectured on audiology to graduate audiences in several California universities...