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...Zealand battle dress. BBC warned: "Every German soldier must know that whoever, in violation of the rules of international law, fights in an enemy uniform, must expect to be shot at once when taken prisoner." German spokesmen at once denied the charge, saying that the men were wearing khaki uniforms, similar to those of the German African Corps, for use in warm climates...
...Daniel (who may decide he wants the Senatorial nomination): "I think he's about out of biscuits."; Of Martin Dies (who definitely wants it): "Dies makes a fine speech but it's always the same one." "Commodore"; Hatfield's unvarying costume is a blue denim shirt, khaki pants, a three-gallon hat braided with bear grass...
Following the review, an order announcing the year's awards was read by Lieutenant-Colonel Quentin Roosevelt '41. Eight awards were pinned on khaki chests by Woodruff and other members of the reviewing stand...
...college students after this June. This unpleasant fact must be recognized immediately by the University authorities. So far the administration has not acted upon this problem with the result that next year's crop of Seniors are shaking in their boots for fear that they will be wearing khaki rather than the cap and gown one year from now. Men called away by the army in the middle of their Senior year will find themselves in the position of Tantalus, so near a degree and yet so far away. In anticipation of the inevitable some definite mechanism must be adopted...
...Punta Arenas, world's southernmost city (pop. 24,307), a sheep ranchers'center, the Antarctic exiles re-entered the green world of vegetables, trees, rocks, beer, money, steaks, French friend potatoes, lettuce-and women. Shaved, dressed in khaki shirts and trousers, with money to spend, the men piled ashore, pushed aside photographers and interviewers as they set out to fulfill long-considered plans. One man had sworn he would get the autograph of the first woman he saw. But she sailed past the wharf in an automobile, would not stop. Their plans were not all alike...