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Half a Loaf. In Chicago, M. J. Lovell, director of the National Association of Shirt and Pajama Manufacturers, bit his' lip and reported that pajama sales average only half a pajama per man per year - a situation he described as "inadequate...
...Drums Went Bang. But in one sense the speechmaking and politicking were simply groundwork for the Legion's parades. They blossomed by the scores. There were informal processions by rigid but hilarious ranks of pajama-clad men. There were exploratory tours by bands and drum & bugle corps. On the first night there was a monster demonstration of that peculiar production of American fantasy-the 40 & 8 locomotive. There were 38 of them in all, many of them amazing machines which emitted real smoke, towed boxcars and whistled like Old 97. About 200,000 people jammed sidewalks and rooftops...
...Bantus massed in the town square. Dusky women, their faces painted white and yellow for the occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight oxen in his honor. "Bring on your enemies," yelled hundreds of Transkei herders in Umtata a few days later, "and we will slaughter them...
Geronimo! (Feb.). In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...
...simply a chronicle of the lives of three generations of d'Alverys from World War I to World War II-their loves, hates, ambitions, marital alliances and misalliances, financial crises, the problems of a sugar economy (among them: blight and the OPA), and politics (Huey Long appears in pajama-clad person...