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...shirt and tie were also grey, the latter a silver grey cravat tied in a Windsor knot. The black spotted pattern of the tie harmonied perfectly with the black and grey of his suit...
...Irrational Knot. While Vegetarian Shaw ate Brussels sprouts and raw carrots and harangued against those who eat "the dead carcasses of animals," Mrs. Shaw ate juicy steaks and commented on his "rabbit food." He liked Wagner; she liked Bach. He was no churchman; she and one of her close friends, Lady Astor, became Christian Scientists...
Sydney Page watched the little knot of men at the pit head as they handled the crumpled form of a badly injured miner. Sydney was 18 and worked aboveground at the Newstead Colliery in Nottinghamshire. The injured man was one of 200 seriously hurt each month in British mines, but he was the first casualty Sydney had seen...
Since Pearl Harbor TIME'S correspondents and editors have traveled overseas (see map) on everything from top-speed troop transports to six-knot tankers (some have even gone by munitions boat)-but whenever possible the government tries to grant our request for plane priority. Flying time is remarkably fast in these wartime days. Duncan Norton-Taylor left Australia Tuesday morning, crossed the international date line, reached San Francisco early Thursday. And when Edward Lockett flew in from London last week he had lunch in Scotland-dinner in Iceland -breakfast in New York...
...Maritime Commission's craggy, solid Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, who yearns to see the U.S. become a great maritime power after the war-and gets seasick every time he thinks of the Liberty ship's plodding, 12-knot speed...