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...plain, washed-khaki jacket. The jacket was open at the neck. It was bare of stars (he could have worn four). It matched his plain, khaki trousers. The only gold was on his garrison cap. But the trousers were rigorously pressed. A bamboo swagger stick swung in his right hand. The jacket, trousers, cap and stick, for that place and that day, were the perfect dress. They were in the MacArthur tradition. Among the dressier uniforms of the generals around him, they made him as conspicuous as had the Russian boots, the resplendent tunics, the stars and the medals which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: There is the Man | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

With the new poles, Crimson vaulters will be able to grasp the weapon further up, and will thus get more distance and hoist out of the bamboo rods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smashed Pole Vault Record Due for Further Beating at Hands of Ford and 12 New Poles | 3/13/1942 | See Source »

Irrepressible American humor bubbled up out of the Jap-infested bamboo jungles of Bataan Peninsula last week. It had broad sweeps of satire, muted undertones of tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tales from Bataan | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...herself. The story involves a colony of Negroes living on a subtropical island who, we couldn't figure out exactly why, can't subsist without a descendant of the white founders watching over them from the ancestral mansion. For two hours, Madeleine chases Stirling from cave to bamboo-tree, limping rather creditably through a script so bad that it makes even the talented Flora Robson appear ridiculous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...them is a piece of hollow bamboo filled with a dynamite stick, which they catapult over the trees. The red-necks call them 'Casey's cookie.' Another is a small, two-wheeled, self-propelled tank, with armored plating up front to protect the machine-gunner. The engineers say it will get where a tank won't, and they call it 'Casey's chariot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Small Plot of U. S. Soil | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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