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From Blues to Khaki. Once it was a standing joke that Harrow men could get into Magdalen only if there weren't any Eton men on the waiting list. Now undergraduates come from all over, wearing the new uniform of corduroy trousers, Army shirts and "demob" jackets. It is no longer possible to tell a poet from, a Blue (a varsity athlete) by his dress...
Reconvertibles. In Washington, Veterans Administrator Bradley announced the VA adviser on women's affairs had closed up shop: women veterans have turned out to be no problem. In Tulsa, nostalgic ex-service women at Tulsa University named their sorority Beta Khaki Gamma...
...final ceremony. Two men, representing the Assembly and the Government, came on the stage under Sun Yat-sen's huge portrait. One was old Wu Chih-hui, dean of the delegates, in satin jacket, skirt and slippers. The other was Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in white gloves and military khaki. An Army band played the national anthem. The crowded Assembly bowed three times before Sun's likeness; Wu mumbled Sun's will. Then from the chairman's aged hand the Gimo received the Constitution, bound in red and gold. He made a brief speech of thanks, ending...
...state of Georgia moved to revoke the charter of the anti-Negro, anti-Semitic Columbians, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 11), demagogic President Emory Burke disdainfully tore the charter to shreds, mailed the pieces to Assistant Attorney General Daniel Duke. The loss of a charter would not stop them. Last week khaki-shirted Columbians assembled for another hate feast...
Last week organized, khaki-shirted Columbians staged a meeting in a downtown Atlanta hall. While a tinny phonograph blared martial music, Columbians stamped up & down, looking baleful and clenching raised fists. Secretary Loomis, in a crew haircut, excoriated Jews, Negroes and the "alien element." President Burke, speaking with an affected English accent, presented a "medal of honor" to 17-year-old James Childers, just released on bail for allegedly blackjacking a Negro...