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Fires & Faces. Weegee does a better than ordinary job with the run-of-the-mine stuff-bodies crumpled on the pavement, flames licking a tenement roof, skirts swirling in the wind-but people and faces are what he is after. Heads popping out of windows to see tragedy in the...
Some of the individual soldiers (notably Captain Walker, whose death inspired one of Pyle's most moving dispatches) are well known to Pyle readers. Ernie's film G.I.s, played with no gallantry and with great conviction, come through as vividly as they did in his dispatches. There are...
The evening dresses disclosed two silhouette trends: the slinky and the frilly. There were pencil-slim skirts, tunic-length jackets, hip draperies, towering hats, fantastic turbans, flowing Grecian folds, bows, bustles, Tudor sleeves. For day wear, there were misty Scotch tweeds in soft blues, green-greys, yellows, reds. The most...
"Rather Bizarre." How the diary got out is a better story than any Ciano tells. His wife, Edda Mussolini Ciano, smuggled it across the Swiss border in five thick notebooks strapped to her body beneath her skirts. Swiss guards mistakenly thought she was pregnant. According to her story, the Nazis...
Skimpy Skirts. Coats, suits and dresses in utility styles were easy to get, but were not very fetching. The material was good quality and long wearing, but skirts were skimpy.