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...Clothier Marcus "froze" the current silhouette. Then he eliminated extraneous frills: voluminous skirts, deep hems, full sleeves, wide belts. Third move was to ar range that coats and suits, jackets and dresses be sold separately, to make them go further. These changes should save 100,000,000 yards of cloth...
First job undertaken was the painting of the walls. This the University did but the students bought cream-colored cloth with which to cover the blackboards, remnants of the old class-room days. Dean Sperry, heartily agreeing with their plans, presented them with the old altar from Appleton Chapel, since torn down to make room for the Memorial Church, and with strips of red carpet, left-overs from the material used in the University church...
...pair of kneeling-stools arrived anonymously while Faculty members gave other articles such as candlesticks. A friend of one of the students, William H. Fex, 2Dv., sewed the altar cloth, and the gray-colored material back of the altar. The men are hoping that, some time in the future, they can acquire a phonograph with records, and perhaps some books...
...wore a pair of brown tights, as did all the supers (male), a green cloth headress of the Easter fashions of 3478 B. C., and a brilliant red tunic. I termed my group the Red soldiers. Harry was a soldier in what I called the Rainbow Division, evidently founded by the color-loving Joseph during his stay with the Pharaohs. His tunic was a thing of radiant beauty if viewed from after, and his helmet shimmered in the African glare of the kleig lights. Bung was a nobody, a gray sort of individual with no color...
...schoolbooks and translated the New Testament into Kate (pronounced Kah-teh), the hill natives' language which Finschhafen had adopted. There was brave, 63-year-old Rev. Stephan Lehner, who first brought God's word to the Laewomba cannibals in the Markham Valley. He won them by hanging cloth, paring knives and tobacco on a dead tree by a river-in native sign language, a surety that he was their friend...