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For almost half of his 79 years, E. (for Evander) Berry Wall set a smart sartorial pace as an international clotheshorse. He was called the best-dressed American in Europe, the King of the Dudes. He was reported to possess 285 pairs of pants, 5,000 custom-tailored neckties. It...
On the clipped green lawn a pavilion was staked up. In the tent shade a liveried staff arranged little tea sandwiches, plates of cookies, piles of paper napkins; twisted up scoops of ice cream (strawberry, chocolate); dipped tiny mugs of sweet, nonalcoholic punch. In redlined blue capes moved Red Cross...
First Allied troops to encounter these obstacles were a battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and a battalion of Territorials, about 1,500 men in all, sent ahead to relieve the beleaguered Norse garrison down in Hegra fortress. The Nazi naval guns and bombing planes were...
In the Middle Ages lepers were dreaded and shunned, were forced to wear white capes and jangle warning bells. But in the U. S. today they are the favorite patients of the U. S. Public Health Service. Each leper at the Carville hospital has a private room and an abundance...
A larger organization of this kind is Defense Passive, a corps of women who, if there ever are any air raids, will drive ambulances and help drag the wounded out of smashed buildings. Some Defense Passives have already bought long, brown, gas-proof capes with yellow scarves, but most are...