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...enlisted women, from 20 to 50 (with a minimum of two years of college, two years' business experience) for officer candidates. Besides important military work, she can promise them a snappy uniform-forest green blouse and skirt, a snappy cap with a scarlet chin strap, a scarlet muffler for accent on the Marines' traditional color. Wives of Marines are barred. Marriage to a Marine after induction is also forbidden, on pain of being dropped from the Corps. But marriage to Army, Navy or Coast Guard...
...Susie Reich, a Polish refugee. Someone had overpowered her and stolen her jewelry, and the noise of her struggling had been drowned by the radio. Adhesive tape had been plastered as a gag over her face and her head wound up in a flowered scarf and a Paisley muffler. She had suffocated. Police rounded up Eli, Madeline and Cullen...
...other justices, an admiral, an Air Force general, glittering with war decorations. At the order "Introduisez les accuses," the five defendants filed in. First was Jacomet, a humble, whipped-dog expression on his lean face. Next the soft-footed, bearlike hulk of Leon Blum, a peasant's woolen muffler wound around his neck. Third was La Chambre, youngest of the five. Then came the aged gamecock, General Game lin, his face wan from prison illness, his mustache no longer a trim, precise line above his lips. Last was Daladier, thick-necked Bull of Vaucluse. They sat facing the judges...
...Democratic Party Senators without a quorum. Muñoz Marin staggered from his sickbed to the Senate chamber. Doors and windows were closed to protect him from pneumonia. The crowded galleries set up a cheer. Muñoz Marin could not take the chair, sat wearing an overcoat and muffler, stifling his coughing in a handkerchief. The hall grew silent. With great difficulty, an expression of profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here while I have an ounce of energy. . . ." He said that if he could...
Nattily attired in a moth-eaten muffler and ear-muffs, C. Walton Jenks, Jr. '43, of Eliot House and Manchester, New Hampshire, was among those seen skimming over the icy surface of the Charles yesterday afternoon...