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...Premier & Generalissimo used to affect a garb as simple as Hitler's or Stalin's, today appears in resplendent uniform with the spruce, German-trained troops of "Chiang's Own" on posters splashed widely about China (see cut). From Shanghai arrived last week the best picture yet of Chiang's grim, steel-helmeted, Prussian-disciplined regulars advancing recently at Lotien in the teeth of Japanese fire which sprawled some grotesquely as they fell (see cut). Old-style Chinese troops, such as still compose most of the country's forces, would have fled in floppy straw...
Referring to your article on p. 30 in your issue of Aug. 9, entitled "Franciscan into Jesuit" and describing the historical inaccuracy of the garb of Marquette, which was changed from a Franciscan to a Jesuit habit, as a student of history I am reminded that Father Marquette died near the present site of Ludington, Mich, in 1675, and La Salle did not start on his Western trip until 1679 and his spiritual companion was Father Hennepin while Marquette's companion was Joliet. . . . I do not find any historical record that La Salle ever saw Father Marquette...
...were held on the Bridge. Present at the event was Dr. Marjorie Marion Nesbit, 33-year-old physician and surgeon of Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, who stood near a priest whom she did not know, but who casually asked her if she had ever noticed that Marquette's garb was incorrect. Though no Catholic, Dr. Nesbit was incensed, lost no time in lining up such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair store and Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. of the packing company to raise $200 to have Marquette's robe altered. Last...
...have the run of the office and are dutifully patted by reporters. She lunches, though rarely at this season, at her town house. No. 15 DuPont Circle, formerly Daisy Harriman's, where the Calvin Coolidges stayed after their White House fire. Glowing, brocaded pajamas are her favorite party garb. Her voice is charming, but she knows all the words in any man's vocabulary. Once she got an interview with Al Capone by walking unannounced into his Miami Beach residence...
...sixty-six Aides, chosen from the Class of 1912, which holds its twenty-fifty reunion this year, and the fifty-seven Marshals from various classes, will wear the traditional garb of Harvard Commencement officials, -- dark cutaway coats, with four-in-hand scarfs and silk hats. They will carry batons, emblematic of their office, and will be responsible for the smooth operation of the Commencement program, including the Alumni spreads, the procession, and Sever Quadrangle exercises...