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...Allied offensive from the Middle East has two possible routes. By sea, it could skirt the south coast of Tur key, push up into the Dodecanese Islands until the Greek coast is reached. Biggest stumbling block to such an advance: the strong Axis fortress of Crete, where the Germans have two big air bases and other bases for E-boats and submarines. The Dodecanese are lightly manned; last week there were reports that the Italians were evacuating some of the southernmost islands and that Germans were moving in. The strongest of the group, the Italian-held island of Rhodes...
Appleblossom Beauties. The uniform Artist Shepard designed was entirely satis factory to Boss Wrigley. As dignified as the field hockey costume of New Eng land's fashionable boarding schools, it still had the provocativeness of a Sonja Henie skating skirt. Scout Hamilton's job was satisfactory too. He had turned down several outstanding players because they were either too uncouth, too hardboiled, or too masculine...
Incidentally, you might also have told your readers that "fitafita" is the Samoan word for soldier, and "lavalava," besides being the native word for the skirt, means clothing in Samoan...
...amused to find that wearing the prescribed summer uniform means breaking regulations. It says here distinctly that the short sleeve shall extend two thirds of the way from elbow to wrist. As for the suits, the primary rule is that the skirt should be of the same material as the jacket and MATCHING IN COLOR. Radcliffe supply officers, garbed in what was once reserve blue, then on second thought dyed a deeper shade, hope to avoid billets in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts wherein the standard for the WAVES' Navy blue is kept. We are still awaiting the arrival...
...Nanty Glo Journal had gone to press for the week. Publisher Herman Sedloff, musing in his doorway, watched a coal-dusty dog skirt a puddle, saw that the color in the Red Cross flag hanging above the middle of the street had run into a dripping, pinkish smear...