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...Korean soldiers I saw at this front were happy men, cheerful to talk to. Looking like rag dolls in their baggy, mustard-colored uniforms topped by big U.S. helmets, they quietly manned craggy command posts or patiently waited behind the slopes of mountains to go into action...
Last week U.S. and South Korean ground forces had their first tangible evidence of the growing effect of air action on North Korean morale. Into the forward post of a South Korean regiment near Koesan walked eight unarmed Reds, their hands raised high over their mustard-colored tunics. They had come to give themselves up. The Communist sergeant said his units now rarely attempted to move anywhere by daylight, reported that Red morale and provisions were running low in some sectors. "The bombing," he said, "is just...
...fighting of the war-Verdun, Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne. He earned six battle clasps for his Victory Medal, the Army's Distinguished Service Cross, three Purple Hearts, five Silver Stars. He had also won the Congressional Medal of Honor for twice dashing through an open, mustard-drenched field under "extreme enemy fire" to tend wounded marines...
What was it all about? Football, which drew crowds and made money. Two years ago the National Collegiate Athletic Association tried to poultice the swelling with a mustard plaster called the Sanity Code. The code permitted athletes free tuition and one free training-table meal a day in season, and stipulated that part-time jobs held by athletes must be real jobs. Some 300 coaches accepted the code with their left hands and then hurried off about their proper pre-season business...
...quiet and do not tempt others," 2) "plenty of fresh air ... is a prime necessity," 3) "at a party where [kissing games] are played, be sure to gargle frequently," 4) "if you feel 'all in' after kissing or being kissed take a hot mustard foot bath...