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Hour after hour, from noon when Stalin reached his office until early dawn when he retired to his apartment on the same floor, there were deferential callers. They found him looking tired. His thick hair and bushy mustache were greying. His belly was fattening under his khaki shirt. But usually his dark eyes flashed at his callers. He spoke to them brusquely, toughly, brandishing his arms...
...Jehovah's serious-minded Witnesses gathered last week in Leicester. Before the convention was over the Witnesses had added grounds for their pacifism. They complained to police that: 1) the local Home Guard had laid down a sooty smoke screen over their campground; 2) "men in khaki uniform broke into the grounds, causing damage, beating one of Jehovah's Witnesses and knocking him unconscious...
Back in U.S. Army khaki, with bank after bank of bright ribbons on his chest, Field Marshal MacArthur will wear the three stars of a lieutenant general. But as military top dog in the Philippines, he will carry a lot of weight in Far East conferences, in which he has long sat with such key figures as Admiral Thomas Hart, Commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in East Asia...
Last week, Monroe County's wheat farmers got what they asked for. In Fort Sheridan, Ill., Private John V. Prochaska, 210th Coast Artillery, packed his barracks bag, slung it over a khaki shoulder, waved good-by to his battery. Monroe County's only threshing-machine owner and operator had a 30-day furlough to winnow the grain for his home county...
...with the red-white-&-blue cockade of the R.A.F. on her camouflaged sides, ground-looped on a take-off and burned as her pilots skipped out of danger. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field four Douglas DB75 whisked in from the west in formation, were landed by their khaki-clad pilots as nice as you please...