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...Saints wore star-spangled, red-white-&-blue uniforms (which made Showman Slip Madigan's St. Mary's-of-California gang look like dun-quiet Quakers), went in for fancy formations like the Suzy-Q shift. Coach Simms got front-page publicity by telling big-name colleges that they were hypocrites, that his team was frankly professional (though he gave them nothing but "room, education, travel and all the food they...
Cupped in hills, just a mottled dun patch from the air, lies Harar, Ethiopia's second city. After miles of rocks and dust elaborated only by anthills and scrub, after more miles of hills ugly with boulders and cactus, Harar is a welcome sight. It is an ancient city state, founded by Arabs From across the Red Sea, rich in a peculiar hybrid culture expressed at one extreme by thatched roofs decorated at their pinnacles with bright enameled chamber pots, at the opposite extreme by minarets of the rigid Moslem faith. It is a community of ruinous houses girdled...
...special Hollywood auction (for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund), loyal Democrats Edward G. Robinson and Melvyn Douglas raised $3,200 between them, triumphantly retired from circulation the dun-colored fedora under which Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned thrice for the Presidency...
...Aeuhl E. Pullen stood erect in his long, speckled Army underwear. Over this formidable garment he pulled khaki trousers, skin-tight below the knee, a regulation khaki tunic. He wore no leggings, left an expanse of white sock showing between his trousers and Army shoes. Over all he yanked dun dungarees and a warm canvas jacket, spotted with grease. On his head he set a heavy, padded leather helmet-the tankers' standard headgear. Around his neck he reluctantly strung a new gadget much hated by the Armored Force: a recently designed dust-mask, undoubtedly useful for preventing silicosis...
...funeral service will be held at 11 o'clock this morning in the Memorial Church. The Rev. Angus Dun, dean of the Episcopal Theological School will preside...