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...nearest police station M.P.s removed the set of threads, leaving the hep-cat only his undershirt and drawers-reportedly regulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MATERIEL: Uniforms Will Be Worn So | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...lick Hitler, and then we can get out and when we do I am going to build me a great big glass house and I am going to keep it filled all the time with sunshine and I am going to sit in that sunshine with only my undershirt on, perspiring all day long, and there will be a bunch of pretty gals to fan me if I ever get too hot, if such a thing is possible, and I will only go out to meals of fried chicken and waffles and just rest & rest and sweat & sweat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Alaska there were only three Episcopal missions, and to cover his diocese Bishop Rowe had to mush on snowshoes with a dog sled over distances as far as from Seattle to San Francisco, with no sign of life, no vegetation between mission stations. He learned to change his undershirt outdoors at 70° below zero, to walk and run as much as 50 miles a day behind his dogs, to build a fire in a blizzard, to pick off wolves too near the camp circle with a rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Icebox Bishop | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...occasionally, touch the ideologies of our day." In 1936 Pope Pius XI testified to the importance of the cinema by devoting a special papal encyclical to it. So did Clark Gable when he took off his shirt in It Happened One Night and revealed that he wore no undershirt. That gesture cost U.S. men's underwear manufacturers a 40-50% cut in business with-in the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bagdad-on-the-Pacific | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...wind whistles off the snow and ice of the Flatbush meadows. The barracks at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, windows open, are very, very cold. And cold seems the heart of Sergeant Earl Sanborn, USMC, who on the dot of 6:15 clumps into the bunk room in his undershirt, pipes two shrill blasts on his whistle, bellows: "Hit the deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Fledglings | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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