Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train chuffed into the station at Davos, Switzerland, a battered jeep bearing the markings of the U.S. Fifth Army stood waiting. A news photographer, assigned to cover a royal reunion, wasted no glances on the strapping youngster in U.S. Army flying jacket who sat at the wheel. But when the big train braked to a stop and the pretty girl in the fur coat stepped off, she had eyes only for the jeep driver. "Hello, Michael darling," she trilled in English, running to him and planting an enthusiastic kiss on his cheek. "Hello, Anne," he stammered in blushing answer...
...accompanied by great public outcry. Millions of U.S. citizens considered him a putty-nosed Canute trying to hold back the tide of progress. The nation was full of editorial writers who swore they could see foam dribbling down his jowls and wanted him clapped forthwith into a strait jacket. There was a certain irony in this. Petrillo's carnivorous methods of "getting something for the boys" made him the natural foe of the canned-music business, but he was also part and product of it, as much a child of Edison and Marconi as the electric tone...
...down to 35 members, dressed in smart gabardine battle-jacket uniforms (they call them "costumes" now), de Paur's Infantry Chorus whisked expertly through a diverse program from 16th Century Palestrina to U.S. contemporary Composer Paul Creston, who has arranged works especially for them. Critics gave them good marks for diction, blending of voices and clarity of line, and for a welcome versatility of material which the Don Cossack choruses lack. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "[This choir] could, without half trying, raise the whole level of our current taste in semi-popular music...
...little crowd gathered-mostly students in odds & ends of G.I. clothing. A young man with a red face, an Army combat jacket and a G.I. wool cap climbed out of an excavation across the street. "What's happening, Mac?" he asked. I told him they were going to unveil a plaque marking the approximate spot where the atom bomb started five years ago this afternoon. "They ain't makin' no bombs there now, are they?" he asked. I told him I didn't think so. He said: "Wadda ya know" and went back down...
...Washington, Secretary of the Interior Julius A. ("Cap") Krug's home was burglarized while he was exploring the nation's interior. Gone: one leather jacket, two watches, three gold studs (with diamonds), a few gold trinkets, one $20 gold piece, and four golden cases of Scotch...