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Until Wednesday it was all Khaki in the Yard, with a few lonely instructors shuffling between ranks of NTS. Now it is also seersucker, an Navy blue, and sweaters and skirts...
...suggested theme for local laundries might be, "Why go elsewhere and wait? Leave your laundry here." ... Maybe I should be a little kinder to the laundrymen hereabouts for now they are nice enough to send me my buttons back ... Does your Dad need a former khaki shirt now a stop-light red for his V Garden scarecrow? ... I could let him have the one I just got back real cheap. I don't know when I could wear it unless I began selling cocoa coals on street corners...
...today. All general V-12 and pre-med students are to receive seamen's whites and blues as outlined in their first orders. Members of the NROTC Unit, which is to maintain its distinctive identity throughout the program, will receive, in addition to the dress blues now held, two khaki summer working uniforms, dress whites, and midshipman undress whites. Shoulder boards for the khakis and whites are not authorized at present, nor is the wearing of brown-or white shoes with any uniforms. Certain items for all hands, such as shoes, athletic equipment, and miscellaneous small stores, will round...
...sure how Australia's 4,000,000 voters (800,000 in khaki) were thinking. But John Curtin's willingness to face the country next month showed how he was thinking...
Close by, two buglers play taps. The Chaplains put on their caps and the graveyard bulldozer huff-puffs again, pushing mounds of cold Attu earth over the khaki-clad bodies of eight U.S. soldiers...