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...uniforms--the conventional khaki whipcord pants replace the black satins the Crimson were last year; home jerseys will be crimson with white numerals, white jerseys with crimson arm bands and numerals will be used at Princeton; head-gears are crimson with a white stripe running the length of the helmet...
Then, as U.S. troops advanced up the slope of Hill 303, the North Koreans retreated. "When they were gone," Roy continued, "I got up and took off. I could hear the BARs and see the G.I.s coming. I ran toward them. I didn't have no helmet on and no shoes and I guess they thought I was a Red, because they started shooting at me. I saw this BAR cutting across the grass, and I flopped down. It hit me in this hand . . ." Roy Manring feebly lifted his right hand and continued: "I yelled...
MacArthur's ground commander in Korea bulged a little in his sharply pressed suntans. But from his gleaming three-starred helmet to his shiny low boots, he looked every inch a fighting man, which he was. Few G.I.s who saw him along that road would forget him; most of them were likely to see him again. General Walker is the frontline, show-yourself type of general...
...brought a variegated collection of sartorial exhibits to Key West and wore them with obvious relish; during a week of beach expeditions, he showed one white pith helmet, one cane, one light yellow sport shirt with orange-and-brown palm trees on its front, one black-and-yellow sport shirt with brown trimmings, and one bright yellow sport shirt with a brown grill design on the front. They were worn with light-colored slacks. Usually, at the beach, the 65-year-old President simply sat in the sun, watching his staff frolic with a volleyball, then changed into bathing trunks...
Blue Danube, Dark Skies. It was a light schedule, and shortly before noon he was ready to relax. He donned a white pith helmet, strolled to the beach past blossoming frangipani, hibiscus and bougainvillaea, soaked up sunshine for two hours and took a dip in the blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. He went for a dip again on St. Patrick's Day-wearing green trunks. That evening he got out a big batch of phonograph records, gave his staff a canned concert of piano selections-such pieces as the Blue Danube and a Chopin Polonaise...