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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unsuitable for wear in Ethiopia is the Fascist black shirt which absorbs heat rather than reflecting it. Last week young Marshal Graziani, energetic new Viceroy of Ethiopia, already had native moppets of tenderest age drilling as a pickaninny Balilla (see cut). From Rome arrived brand-new khaki uniforms for Ethiopian "Sons of the Wolf" to be worn with fetching green scarfs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Khaki Blackshirts | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...season in Robin Hood Dell. Because the Philadelphia musicians play on a cooperative basis, never knowing what their salaries will be, Conductor Whiteman donated most of his men's services, asking only expenses and $1,500 for crack Arranger Adolph Deutsch. During rehearsals Whiteman perspired through a green shirt, puffed a long cigar. Violinist Arthur Lipkin, chairman of the Dell concerts, went through an anti-rain ceremony on the strength of his having been made Honorary Medicine Man.& Rainmaker by Navajo Indians during the Philadelphians' national tour (TIME, April 27). It rained on one of the two nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hot Weather Harvest | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...Lewisohn Stadium. Iturbi said he was booked for 47 U. S. concerts during the summer. In the Lewisohn Stadium, where three years ago he managed for the first time to make the U. S. think of him as a conductor, Iturbi appeared in a white flannel suit, dark blue shirt and white tie, played Beethoven vigorously. The audience approved the addition of tables at which to sit and drink during the concert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hot Weather Harvest | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...laps around it make a mile. Length of Burghley's 58-sec. run was therefore approximately a quarter-mile, for which the world's indoor record is 49.6 sec. Not only was Lord Burghley handicapped by the sharp turns, but also by full evening dress: tails, stiff shirt, pumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...that's only part of the story. Lord Burghley ran in evening clothes. TIME did a sloppy bit of reporting here-neglected to mention whether 1) Tuxedo or formal, 2) stiff or soft bosom shirt, 3) high shoes or dancing pumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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