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...loyalty program had not yet been instituted, and since then, Acheson insisted, State had done a good job of weeding out "misfits." Said Acheson: "We are satisfied-as far as anyone can be in this imperfect world-that we have a good, clean, loyal and honest outfit...
Sandals & Bulls. This spring, Metro's emissary was able to report progress. Hunting and haggling through Italy since 1948, Henigson had collected enough costumes to outfit a small army, enough animals to stock a zoo. He had bought 12,480 yards of specially dyed material to be made into togas, had cornered 10,000 pieces of gold-plated jewelry for Quo Vadis' 5,000 extras. From Roman shoemakers, he had ordered 6,250 pairs of handmade sandals, and from the women of the Italian Alps, several hundred silky-haired wigs. For the circus scenes in Quo Vadis, there...
Battery D. He got to downtown St. Louis just in time to eat, dress, and appear at a ball which opened the 24th reunion of his old World War I outfit, the 35th Division...
...stationery and envelope flaps) on which Emily had scratched her verse, Harvard would get stacks of letters, family records and diaries recently unearthed in old trunks and boxes in Austin Dickinson's Amherst house. Harvard would also get its choice of Emily's library and furniture to outfit the Dickinson room...
...afternoon) a baseball game. Tempelhof field was jammed by 100,000 Berliners who had turned out with baby carriages, folding chairs and lunch boxes to see the show. Star attraction proved to be the famed seven-minute silent drill of the 558th Infantry Rifle Platoon, a crack Negro outfit which used to be General Lucius Clay's honor guard; the soldiers went without music or orders through intricate, breathtakingly precise evolutions that would have overwhelmed the British Grenadiers-or the Rockettes. Exclaimed one former Wehrmacht noncom: "Why, they're practically better than the Prussians...