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Next day he donned his khaki uniform with its seven stars (for Marshal of France) and one decoration-the gold-and-blue Médaille Militaire, France's highest award for valor. Then he shuffled from his Palais lodging (a 14 ft. by 12 ft. magistrate's cloakroom) to the prisoner's dock in the jampacked chamber...
Broadway and Hollywood have also gone to war-in U.S.O.-Camp Shows uniforms (Army o.d. or khaki). Last week some 250 entertainers invaded Europe, the largest group yet in a great push that began shortly after V-E day. The Army prescribed it as a cure for the G.I. doldrums...
...seven Houses full of civilians ... the House dining halls had waitresses and individual menus and unlimited seconds ... the CRIMSON was the CRIMSON ... the Lampoon was the Lampoon ... Varsity played Yale ... "Rinehart" was a cry to be reckoned with ... Freshmen lived in the Yard ... men in tweeds outnumbered men in khaki and Navy blue...
...baby of the Harvard CRIMSON, the Harvard SERVICE NEWS serves a University that it turn serves the khaki, the blue and the seersucker. The SERVICE NEWS publishes in the 72-year-old tradition of the CRIMSON, Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily, which grew under the leadership of men like the late Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, which listed such men as James B. Conant '14 and Joseph C. Grew '02 on its executive board, and which showed some prospective editors, including Walter Lippmann '09 and Heywood C. Broun '10, the Proverbial gate...
...kilt, it pointed out, must "for anatomical reasons" be different from a man's; it must be longer. The above-the-knee kilt for women was "a travesty of the male attire ... an affront to the Gael." The C.W.A.C. pipers would have to wear regulation drab khaki uniforms-at least until a more decorous, calf-length kilt could be designed...