Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darby, who had been covering the White House for TIME, joined Dwight Eisenhower when "he checked in his uniform June 3," has traveled more than 30,000 miles by air and about 18,000 miles by rail in the past 4½ months. He first flew to Kansas with the general, stayed with him on the train trip to Abilene. When TIME decided to do an Eisenhower cover story (June 16), Darby spoke to him in one of the rare private interviews the candidate has given. Darby continued to cover Eisenhower through the nominating campaign and the convention itself...
...shape of a belt bears little relation to degree of formality but can often have a transforming effect on the wearer's figure if she chooses the shape with careful attention to her good points. A plain cinch of uniform width on a short and chubby girl can be disastrously unappealing, since a wide fabric belt has a tendency to curl over at the edges. Many girls would do well to choose a shaped belt that tapers off and widens at strategic places, playing up the slender areas and playing down the padded ones. There is even a new invention...
...jumbled emotions. Many Frenchmen, spoiling for a victory on the field, winced at the sound of German cheers, mild though they were. One spectator, a concentration camp survivor, stood through the entire game, eying the visitors in silent hatred, a vengeful symbol in his old striped Buchenwald uniform. Another Frenchman, watching his jittery, overanxious team missing wild shots at the goal during the first half, wept uncontrollably...
...magazine Air Force appealed for the return to Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg of his $50 uniform cap, which he lost at a luncheon in Detroit in August. The general's hat was "unique and unmistakably identifiable and encrusted clear around with silver lightning." The "overzealous souvenir hunter . . . cannot brag about it to friends, nor hang it proudly over the mantel, nor wear it . . ." If the hat is returned, "the general is willing to forgive and forget with no questions asked...
...dislike having communists and procommies in the teaching profession. The Legion, of course, comes in for special attention for having opposed some of the darlings of the Crimsonites, but that is all right with us. One of these days the Harvard boys are likely to find themselves in uniform fighting against people of the stripe they are new so ardently defending. --The American Legion Magazine