Word: mufti
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...citizens, uniformed and in mufti, traveled 54 billion passenger miles last year-an alltime high-though U.S. railroads had only two-thirds of the cars, half the locomotives they had 20 years ago. Where 100 passengers used to be considered the peak for one diner, now a single crew of waiters may have to serve up to 700 meals a day, sometimes work from 5:30 a.m. until 2 a.m. next morning. Pullman porters, working over 250 hours a month, are similarly overloaded...
...press, all sixty-four of us will be on route to our duty stations and looking ahead, rather than backward. Our fellow-graduates across the river will be in similar situations. But the Supply Corps continues, and the Communication School plug on, and the QMC works modestly in mufti, so we'll write a post-valedictory piece since our valedictory appeared in the last issue for these who toil on towards that goal which is already ours...
...about the boys going in the Army-soon in order to relieve the WAACs for active duty! Another cynical member of the QMC remarked that this was a funny world--there was a war on and here were all the women in uniform and the men in mufti! . . . It was kinds funny, at that...
...students working for a Master of Business Administration degree, this latest khaki-bound contingent numbers about 80 men. They include a good majority of the civilians at the School who are neither in assigned Army Reserve groups nor the Navy, leaving behind only a handful in mufti...
...Africa TIME'S resident correspondent in Cairo, Harry Zinder, knows practically every newsmaker in the Middle East, from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who claims descent from Mohammed but has blue eyes and a blond beard) to stern, Bible-quoting General Montgomery of the British Eighth Army (who can't stand having his soldiers cough when he speaks and has a picture of Rommel pinned over his bed). Jack Belden, TIME'S roving correspondent in the East, probably knows General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell better than any other correspondent alive (he was with him on that long, nerve...