Word: beret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with maybe a little calypso." Then, with cracking, lackluster tenor and a backing of RCA trumpets, or fiddle and humming voices, he croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here's the mail that came today/ His silver wings and green beret; Come all ye young maidens, and hear my sad tale/ 'Bout a brave young trooper whose 'chute did fail"). If Viet Nam has produced a true war poet, he is no doubt too busy fighting to write...
...Force. When he got out in 1962, a buddy taught him drums and guitar, and they formed a combo. But they couldn't hack it playing honky-tonks, so Sadler tried the Army. Then came eleven rigorous months of Special Forces training that qualified him for his green beret as a combat medic. Along the way, at Fort Sam Houston, he says, "I started writing songs because I had a terrible time playing anybody else's music." His first audiences were the boys in the barracks and the girls in the bordellos below the border in Nuevo Laredo...
...senator and a civil rights worker denounced America's "dirty war" last night--but the Green Beret stole the show...
...Green Beret Bites Back...
...pups. Porgie Cassini, Columnist Igor's beagle, showed the crowd a few pointers in a $10 tight-fitting white knit turtleneck. Rufus Cass, a Cavalier King Spaniel owned by Comedienne Peggy Cass (To Tell the Truth), trotted out in a snappy Garbo trench coat and green velvet beret designed for Special Farces. Mimi and Camille Henderson, Skitch's miniature poodles, sported twin $150 red mole coats that were belted at the waist, and Buffee Gore, Singer Lesley Gore's poodle, hit a high note with a vicuna snow suit with red trim...