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...last may, over 450 undergraduates trooped into New Lecture Hall to show how badly they wanted to stay out of the Army. The results of that survey, announced in a preliminary report this fall, show that Harvard men are more allergic to khaki than all but one of ten representative schools in the country. Only fifteen per cent tested here evinced any desire to go into service. The bulk were lukewarm at best, and fully a quarter wanted nothing to do with the armed forces...
Beyond the Call. In Sacramento, after being bothered for four years by a rash which hospitalized him four different times, Staff Sergeant Donald W. Arrington took his pre-discharge physical examination, learned that he is allergic to khaki...
...remaining two months, radio is concentrating on music and drama. NBC is ready with half a dozen musical programs, ranging from an Armed Forces talent show called Stars in Khaki & Blue to the Stan Kenton Concerts, a weekly series of "revolutionary jazz" broadcast from different cities in the U.S. and Canada. CBS, aiming at the beach and auto trade, will broadcast 2½ hours of music, news, weather reports and baseball scores each Sunday afternoon...
Bygone days, he said, recalled "a land of used-to-be, watered by tears and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday . . . filled with ghosts from far off fields in khaki, and olive drab, in navy blue and air corps grey...
More, Please. Instead of boarding their prize in Treasure Island style, the pirates ordered the Wing Sang's skipper aboard their ship. He was greeted by a raffish crew of about 70 young Chinese in faded khaki and peaked military caps, and with Colt revolvers, Mauser automatics and bandoleers. Their leader, a slim, handsome man whose badge of office appeared to be a pair of brown leather gloves, made a short speech. Money, said he. Stanton was ordered to send his lifeboat back to the Wing Sang, to pick up $10.000 in ransom, and a passenger...