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...disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding the force saw to it that only healthy soldiers went ashore. Life is pleasant, with plenty of tropical fruits and vegetables; wild pigs occasionally provide fresh meat. Love is taboo until after sundown, then the unattached girls doff their tapa-cloth shirts, shake out their grass skirts and smile fondly about them...
...modern war the Sam Browne is as nonfunctional as the saber. Soon after the outbreak of World War II, both Britain and the U.S. made cloth belts regulation. Officers who had Sam Brownes could wear them, but only for dress occasions, unarmed. Later the U.S. barred the use of leather or brass for belts. Last week London followed suit: the Minister of Supply ruled out for the duration Sir Samuel's shiny military harness...
Franklin Roosevelt's don't-fight-in-public order dropped over Washington, like a black cloth over a parrot cage, in time to hide the second most rowdy, screaming battle of the summer.* Last week this battle, betrayed only by muffled sounds, was quietly settled beneath the cloth. The opponents...
...City of the Bombed. Looking through glasses, we saw that sheets and drawers and white pieces of cloth were hanging straight down from windows in the face of the cliff. We ventured upward in column, passing along the way a ghostly old woman lying amid crumbling plaster and shattered timber, who stretched out her hands to us, stared out of sightless eyes, and moaned like the wind whining through pine trees...
Hours later a rescue plane spotted them. Colonel Don Fliekinger, flight surgeon and holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross, saw a message on the ground spelled out with parachute cloth: "Send medical man with rescue party." Landing was impossible in the thick jungle. He and two soldiers carrying medical supplies parachuted down...