Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vitamins. Every available helicopter was standing by; two hospital ships, one U.S. and one Danish, were anchored at Inchon. A huge galvanized-iron shed was erected as a stopover for disabled Chinese and North Koreans on their way north. The press train reappeared at Munsan, with phone lines to Seoul and teletype circuits to Seoul and Tokyo...
...Moscow kept its promise to release British and French civilians interned in North Korea since the Communist capture of Seoul in 1950. Fourteen Frenchmen, including two diplomats, one newsman and five nuns, were en route from Moscow on their way home to France. Six Britons and an Irish priest were "in process of repatriation...
Modified Bop. The life of a G.I. musician, even in the rear-line luxury of Seoul, would set his Stateside counterpart bawling for Petrillo. After playing for dances until around 11, he is likely to be up at 6 without even so much as a cup of coffee, bouncing over pitted streets to one of the airfields to play ruffles & flourishes and the General's March for visiting brass. In winter weather, instruments have to be doused with antifreeze, and metal mouthpieces have to be kept in pockets until the last minute. Army bands are not required to play...
There are eight Army bands in Korea: six in the divisions, one in Pusan and one in Seoul. Until a few months ago, each band had from 65 to 100 men, but recently an order went out standardizing all bands at 42 enlisted men and one warrant officer to bring about "a better utilization of manpower." Even so, each band manages to organize three or four good combos to balance the military marches with plenty of Dixieland, bop and progressive jazz...
Arrangers, like spectacled Private David Hillinger, 24, from the University of Michigan, who plays piano or drums in an Eighth Army combo, lean most to the high-speed, modified bop called progressive jazz. Hillinger does most of his arranging from records played by the Armed Forces Radio Service in Seoul and from the latest records and sheet music sent from home; the sheet music supplied to the bands by Special Services tends to be from months to a year late...