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Those who saw Cora Hind on her tours through the wheat never forgot her. A sturdy, schoolmarmish spinster, she wore high leather boots, a cowgirl skirt, flat-crowned sombrero, and a beaded buckskin coat which hung to her knees. This getup was discarded in her later years in favor of ill-fitting riding breeches, shirt and high boots. She carried rubber hip boots in case of rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ella Cora Hind | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...women press correspondents in Washington. Don't they know there is a war? They asked me silly questions such as do I use powder and rouge and nail polish and do I curl my hair? One reporter even criticized the length of the skirt of my uniform, saying that in America women wear shorter skirts and besides my uniform made me look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Lady Sniper | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...Suez, he may choose to turn north toward Syria, seize the Royal Navy's last (and insufficient) eastern Mediterranean bases at Haifa and Beirut, then drive on Iraq. His more direct route to Basra would be straight across the great deserts of Arabia, but even camel trails skirt those wastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Sir Henry at the Bridge | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...creation named "Trim Little Suit" brought ecstatic applause as the models began parading across the pink carpet, posturing on a raised dais. Adrian's price: $225. Another, "It's Not True" ($210) had a long black skirt and a transparent lace front. "Black Glamour" ($395) was a study in black seductiveness for evening. Adrian showed 60 of his creations: "Suit with Red Excitement," "Black Dress with Two Roses," "Dinner with a Dash of Gold," "Commando," "For a Visit to the Camp," "When He's Home," "Peace and Quiet," "Where's the U.S.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Frog Paddled | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...Caucasus. Farther south the cards were running worse for Russia. Hitler had taken the minor Maikop oil fields, facing the great range of the Caucasus which divides the Black Sea from the Caspian. On the west one German column was headed for the Black Sea coast to skirt the towering mountains and move in behind them. Another German column thrust eastward through Elista, possibly to drive at Astrakhan, where the Volga flows into the Caspian, or possibly to cut the Volga farther north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Of Time and the Volga | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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