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Many a lonely U.S. soldier has cursed the olive drab as he watched an enlisted marine, in the blue and scarlet of a dress uniform, move on to a dance floor. Last week, after years of fretting over the dreary appearance of its enlisted men, the Army finally gave G.I.s a break. On formal occasions, enlisted men as well as officers may now sport a dress uniform consisting of a dark blue coat with gold chevrons and sky blue pants with a gold stripe. To acquire this finery will cost a G.I. about $80 (roughly a month...
...historical novelist who cared about history. When he died last February at 63 he had written some 30 books (which sold 5,200,000 copies), many of them forming a kind of family album of the U.S. in wartime. Come Spring was a tale of Revolutionary days, Thread of Scarlet a close-up of the War of 1812, House Divided took in four sprawling years of Confederate history. The books were honest, uninspired, but engagingly readable-triumphs of plausibility and painstaking research...
...sins were scarlet, but his books were read...
Even before the credit titles are flashed on, Marilyn and Jane are on the screen in spangled scarlet dresses slit to a fare-thee-well above and below decks, hammering out a number entitled The Little Girls from Little Rock. From then on, the picture is so busy leering at Marilyn and Jane that it never gets around to being much of a picture. The result, while still fun, is a burlesque of burlesque, a kind of Minsky in mink...
Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC). A new series based on the Baroness Orczy novel, recorded in Britain...