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The Wounded. Over San Francisco's Mare Island, barrage balloons turned slowly in a cold wind. The white collars of sailors lined up to greet the President whipped about their necks. From the windows of the Navy hospital, scores of men in pajamas watched while the President shook hands...
Still less deserving of respect are those who go to the extent of removing the ROTC insignia from their collars and the VERITAS shields from their overseas caps. If my small knowledge of military law is at all accurate, the men in the latter group are guilty of a courtmartial...
Farley Still Had the Votes. The air-conditioning fizzled; the ballroom became an oven; delegates shed coats, opened collars. Jim Farley, seeking comfort, had an outside freight elevator drawn up to an open door behind the platform. There he sat on a gilded ballroom chair, fanning himself with a newspaper...
James V. Forrestal, 50, went to Washington after making a pile of money in Wall Street, where he was president of the investment banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co. He still wears his banker's semi-stiff collars, smokes a pipe, has an amiably smashed nose from boxing. A...
Nightshirts. WPB had already cut an inch and a half off men's shirttails, had forbidden pockets and pointed collars, to save material. Last week WPB discussed pajamas, considered restricting sleeping garments to three styles: one shortened version of the old-fashioned nightshirt (now worn voluntarily by only 1...