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...misunderstand--there is nothing really hateful about Sadler. His story has its own appeal. A no-good kid from a broken home who likes to sing joins the Air Force, gets shipped to Japan and wins a black belt for judo, then becomes an Army paratrooper, and finally winds up in Special Forces school where he writes down a song that has been on his mind for years. He copyrights it and sends it to a publisher, where it languishes for months while Sadler plays medic and sings some more in Vietnam. An ABC film crew happens by the camp...
...song. he predicted it would be in the top ten within a week. I thought he was crazy; I was wrong. "The Ballad of the Green Berets" sold something over two million copies, and brought fame and fortune to a 26-year-old high school drop-out named Barry Sadler, who has a son called Thor and a smart-aleck grin like that kid in your homeroom who used to shoot craps during morning announcements...
Give it away he does not. The New York smoothies realize what a picturesque thing it is, arrange for a tie-in selling campaign with novelist Robin Moore (Sadler poses for the paperback cover for The Green Berets), tell him to write enough songs to fill up an album, and get the show on the road. In months, Sadler is the American Legion's "Favorite Serviceman 1966," the owner of two Jaguars--one black and one blue--and the name-sake of the Barry Sadler Foundation for college scholarships to Vietnam victims' children...
...service to Eastern shuttlers - including the entire Boston Symphony Orchestra, which once popped in at the last minute, instruments and all - and have held off would-be imitators, who lack the necessary extra planes to compete. Still, betting on extra frills rather than extra flights, American President Marion Sadler vows to take half the business with a new fleet of short-haul BAC-111 jets and "make money...
...Glimpses. Back in London such attributes have endeared Davis to the music fraternity, and he is universally praised as the finest conductor to come out of Britain in 30 years. He began as a clarinet player with the Glyndebourne Orchestra, moved to the Sadler's Wells Opera as principal conductor in 1960 and distinguished himself with his command of the Mozart, Stravinsky and Berlioz repertory. Calm and controlled in action, Davis is respected by his musicians as "one of the few English conductors with real fire in his belly...