Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Capa, war-going LIFE photographer, parachuted into Germany last week with the U.S. 17th Airborne Division. Two nights later he turned up in Paris, bone-weary, unshaven, still clad in a dirty paratroop uniform. At the apartment of TIME'S chief military correspondent, Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Mr. Capa consented to eat some ham and eggs and beefsteak and bread and butter and cheese and cake, and to drink some coffee and burgundy and champagne and cognac. Between swallows he explained what it was like...
...have to bring the men home. We have to get our dear country on the move again and into its full swing of natural health and life." The Conservatives would promise no "easy, cheap-jack Utopia of airy phrases . . .windy platitudes." For Britons in & out of uniform, weary of restriction and regulation, the Party offered "a large release from the necessary bonds and controls which war conditions have imposed...
Died. Dorothea Wieck (rhymes with sheik), 37, fragile, sad-eyed German cinemactress (Maedchen in Uniform), whose 1933 Hollywood visit was cut short by inept roles and whisperings that she was a Nazi spy; in an Allied air raid (according to German report); in Dresden, Germany...
...WAVES hewed to a line that was dignified and stern. On one occasion a Brooklyn reporter heckled Miss Mac for a story on WAVE underwear. What was going to be regulation lingerie? Miss Mac set her teeth; the Navy did not care what the WAVES wore under their uniform. The reporter finally gave up. There was no story on WAVE underwear...
...their efficiency is jeopardized." One of those niceties was stall compartments for bunks, giving an effect of privacy. This was not pampering. Dr. Overholser, who has the job of caring for psychoneurotics among WAVES, thought that lack of privacy might be one factor in mental crackups among girls in uniform...