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Last week, as part of a general effort "to improve relations between us and the British." Colonel G. F. McGuire, deputy commander of the Britain-based U.S. Third Air Force, ordered airmen of his command to modify their off-duty garb "in accordance with local custom." The only exception: attendance at such ail-American affairs as ball games. There, zoot suits, Harry Truman shirts and other native costumes may still be worn without penalty...
...House's intellectual martyrdom is that, alone among the House, it can fill its library on the Saturday evening of a big dance. This fable is perfectly true. Last Saturday, the evening of the big Lowell House formal, while one third of the House was prancing around in formal garb, and leading their dates to a served dinner in the dining room, another, smaller contingent was busy in the library...
...Kelly, who contumeliously declared he would never swear allegiance "to a foreign Queen," was, therefor, as reported in your Dec. 14 story, convicted of "sedition" and given choice of binding himself "to be of good behavior" (be a nice, polite Briton) or go, a felon in felon's garb, to a convict prison. From the dock defiant, and vowing he would never accept the ignominious convict's garment wherewith Britain has always insisted on humiliating Irish political prisoners, "cantankerous Kelly chose jail...
...Last week, in a North Irish court, he was found guilty of sedition, and given the alternative of posting a $280 bond for five years' good behavior or going to jail for a year. Cantankerous Kelly chose jail. But, said he, "I will never submit to wearing prison garb. You may hold me, but you will hold me naked...
Quite aware of the potential of the locale and its personalities, Swanson has chosen a piece of ironical whimsey for his script. A wiry youth with the agility of a Douglas Fairbanks and the garb of a Broadway bopster steals a 40 pound donation from the coffers of the local church. After a Keystone cops chase he hides the money under a pumpkin soon to be found by a woman who needs cash urgently to feed her hungry children. When the thief shrewdly steals the money back, the whole village of Alexandra pursues him until he seeks out a plausible...