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Managing Editor Eliezer ("Lou") Shainmark of Hearst's Chicago Herald-American saw a way to combine a good deed and a good story. He got his labor editor to talk to big Mike Sexton, boss of the local A.F.L. Carpenters Union. Mike pulled on an old khaki jacket and went out to build the house himself-his first carpentry job in 32 years. Other unions contributed labor while builders supplied materials. This week, a $17,000 free Cape Cod-style house for Roberta was rising out of the ashes...
...Khaki Shirts & Candor. They landed at Washington's National Airport wearing black suits, khaki Army shirts, tan Army shoes, bluish felt hats and the look of men who will not be taken in by city slickers. They smiled and nodded happily when they were told to form their own opinions and to have no fear of frankness, but it soon developed that the advice was unnecessary. They were men of imposing candor...
Clad in a simple khaki uniform without insignia, China's Commander in Chief and President rose to his feet from a sofa in the corner of the room. Slowly, without show of emotion, he made the announcement that all had expected: he would leave Nanking and go to his native home. Then in his choppy Ningpo accent he read from a formal statement...
...railroad station at Pukow, just across the Yangtze from Nanking, was choked with people. Soldiers, bulky in padded winter khaki, bivouacked on the concrete platforms. Their rice cooked in big iron pots over wood fires. Grimy refugees hovered nearby with begging bowls. Petty traders, going uprailway to barter cloth and matches for sesame oil and tobacco, swarmed with their bundles on the rooftops of overpacked third class coaches, on couplings, on the coal tender, on the catwalk around the locomotive boiler...
After that came prayers and reading; then breakfast alone and the day's work. When he had military visitors, he donned his plain, unmedaled khaki uniform; otherwise he wore a dark blue mandarin gown with a black jacket. To save coal, the grate in his study was left unlit most days, and the Gimo wore a skullcap to keep his head warm...