Word: regimentations
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TIME'S Sept. 7 review of Maugham's Choice of Kipling's Best leaves unclear the reason why the Indian member of a polo team visiting the officers of another regiment (in The Man Who Was) ". . . could not, of course, eat with the mess." This might lead some readers to infer that it was because of British insularity or snobbishness. The reason was that the Indian officer's caste might be broken if he ate with nonbelievers in his religion...
...Wodehouse novel. He is tall, languid, perennially short of cash and preoccupied with strange solutions for his problem. Lord Glenorchy has tried his luck as barman, bagpiper and laborer to supplement the $28-a-month pension he draws as a wounded veteran of the famed Black Watch Regiment. No luck...
...backbone crawl as the bagpipes scream in the dawn light and a cavalry band, "shinin' an' spic like angils," adds the rattle of its "silver kettle-dhrums" to the shrieks of the wives and the terrible notes of the Dead March, sounding gruesomely from a regiment whose colonel has been killed...
...West Point, Richard Shea doggedly set one Academy record after another on the track field: the indoor mile (4:10), and both the indoor and outdoor twomile. Turning up in Korea in the closing weeks of the fighting. 2nd Lieut. Shea led a platoon of Able Company, 17th Infantry Regiment on Pork Chop Hill. One night the company was heavily hit by a Chinese attack, but stood its ground. Lieut. Shea led two counterattacks that night and three the next day. His own company was cut up; he himself got a shrapnel wound in the neck. But doggedly refusing evacuation...
...could gripe about the hardships. Each echelon claimed that the men to the rear were "fat" with luxuries. The man on the line envied the man at battalion because he usually slept on a cot and lived in a tent and had three hot meals a day. Battalion thought regiment "had it made" because there the men rode around in jeeps. The soldier assigned to regiment wished he was farther back at division, where it was safer, where there were showers, Korean houseboys to do the laundry, and movies almost every night. The man at division figured the corps headquarters...