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...newly uniformed Lowell five made its flashy dobut upon the courts of the House Basketball League today and pierced the hoop for 18 points to their Brooks House opponents' five. The Bellboys' outfit consisted of a blue jersey and white whipcord trousers with a blue...
...Turner. While working for Gilmore Oil Co. as an aerial advertiser, he acquired a 450-lb. lion cub which flew everywhere with him and helped to get his picture in the papers. Better known than this pet is the Turner uniform-robin's-egg-blue tunic, faun-colored whipcord breeches, Sam Browne belt, black riding boots and a gold-and-crimson flying helmet...
...last week. Some 700 ragged, hungry veterans arrived from the Pacific Coast to join the Bonus Expeditionary Force, to besiege Congress for immediate cashing of their adjusted service certificates. At their head was a thin, leathery roofer from Los Angeles named Roy Robertson. He wore a blue overseas cap, whipcord breeches. Behind his head was a steel brace from which a strap was fastened under his chin. While serving in the Navy he had fallen from a hammock, permanently injured his spine. His disability in no way diminished his capacity to stage one of the grittiest demonstrations of the Depression...
...Duce's 1922 march on Rome, proclaimed himself the veterans' dictator. He conducted an election "so there wouldn't be any kicks," discharged disgruntled officers. His bronzed face and yellow hair glistened proudly as he strode out to the Anacostia camp next day in whipcord breeches and shiny riding boots. He summoned his men and began barking the new order of the day. There were to be daily drill periods henceforth...
...between bites (TIME, Oct. 6), Conservation Commissioner Henry Morgenthau Jr. was training a platoon of public servants to assist unskilled fishermen to find fish and catch them. The State has 150 fish and game protectors. It was Commissioner Morgenthau's idea to put these individuals into uniforms-brown whipcord cut like the State Policemen's, with a blue band around their caps-and to send them all last fortnight to Captain Charles J. Broadfield of the State Police for instruction. Arresting anglers who lack licenses or who have taken trout too small or too many will be only...