Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiancee never walks on stage, readers get no great chance to weigh the matter for themselves. They will have to take Author Gallico's sentimental word for it that a plain Patches in R.A.F. blue is preferable to a Long Island girl in a camel's-hair coat, any old day. On the basis of advance orders for The Lonely from U.S. bookdealers, the publishing trade confidently expects that U.S. women will be falling all over themselves this fall to buy the book, and find out why in the world Gallico thinks so. Male readers are likely...
...weeks before the scheduled game, martial law is declared on both campuses. Raiding parties can be expected any night. A concrete "C" in the Berkeley Hills usually gets a coat of cardinal red paint (Stanford's color), and numerous blue C's appear on the Farm. At Stanford, the defense of the college is turned over to the freshmen. Groups of these eager youths patrol the campus all night long. At any sign of danger, they ring the fire bell, the signal for the whole college to come to their aid. Both universities threaten expulsion for anyone caught defacing property...
...Reader Battle's typical coat is divided roughly three ways: tariff charges are about $18.50, U.S. traders (who bear the costs of handling & merchandising) get $31.50. The remaining $50 goes to the English manufacturer, who can then pay his bills for imported wool...
...Weston has applied his knowledge of heraldry to the business of decorating some of Robert Chapin's maps in TIME, to LIFE'S series on the History of Western Culture, and other purposes. The latter include answering letters from readers taking spirited exception to one or another coat of arms that TIME and LIFE have printed. The nice thing about the subject matter, Weston says, is that it allows for equally spirited replies...
...walks across the street alone (he has no bodyguard) to the staid and stark Rideau Club, where he customarily sits with other cabinet members at the "Ministers' Table." After lunch, he is in his office until about 6:30. Except on the hottest days St. Laurent works with his coat on. It is an unwritten rule that the 44 members of his staff shed theirs only when the P.M. is in shirtsleeves. He writes ten to 20 letters a day, receives an average of five visitors, places his own telephone calls, starts the conversations with a crisp: "St. Laurent here...