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Just among Fronds. The hostel had one important atmospheric touch-there were banana trees in the yard. When a man got orders to "get out and cover the war," he could always get a snap of himself in pith helmet and shorts, grinning bravely amid the banana fronds, to send his home office...
After the race, Gus looked gloomily at the untapped kegs in his cellar. In London that night there was little of the tipsy tradition that made it a duty of The Day to knock off at least one bobby's high-domed helmet. A girl at her first boat race asked her young man: "What does one do after a boat race?" "Go home," he said...
...Said one editor: the aviation press had done too good a job of convincing the industry that it needed a mass market for peacetime success, and the mass market could be reached only through mass-circulation magazines and newspapers. Others had a simpler explanation: the war had stripped the helmet-and-goggles glamor from flying, made it commonplace...
Last week the Salzburg Festival was on again-under the wary eye of the American Military Government. White-helmet-ed MPs directed generals' limousines through cobbled streets. Inside the Festspielhaus some 50 hand-picked Austrians in dowdy evening clothes, were carefully segregated from U.S. soldiers who filled two-thirds of the auditorium. The concert began with s balcony speech by General Mark Clark. Then the Mozarteum Orchestra, including 27 musicians ousted by the Nazis, played Mozart, Lehar and Johann Strauss...
Kiefer, who wore a helmet with "Dixie" boldly stenciled on it, had been executive officer of the old Yorktown at the Coral Sea battle (where he won the D.S.M.), and at Midway (where the York sank and he got the Navy Cross for heroism). There he had jumped from the ship and shattered his right leg and ankle...