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Henceforth G.I.s may, without risking the guardhouse, give presents of castoff clothing, chewing gum or cigarettes to their Japanese friends, male or female. The G.I.s can also take their girls to Japanese movies without worrying about MPs. They are free to enter Japanese theaters, restaurants, hotels or hospitals, and to be entertained by Japanese friends in their homes. They may travel around Japan without official, written permission, and it is all right for them to compete in "all sports" with the Japanese, who are anxious to match some of their baseball teams against service outfits...
Dressed in a castoff suit and consigned to a donated grave, the mortal remains of a poor man were buried last week. These arrangements were appropriate; during most of his life Peter Maurin had slept in no bed of his own and worn no suit that someone had not given away. But to his funeral among the teeming, pushcart-crowded slums of lower Manhattan, Cardinal Spellman himself sent his representative. There were priests representing many Catholic orders, and there were laymen rich & poor from places as far away as Chicago. All night long before the funeral they had come...
...opening game of yesterday's double bill, league-leading Kirkland downed what players Dudley could muster behind the slants of varsity castoff Frank McNutt...
...become one of Montparnasse's topflight nightclub entertainers. The artists who immortalized Kiki's curves in oil and marble sometimes forgot to pay her, and Kiki never cared. Unconcerned, she tramped the streets in a threadbare overcoat and man's hat and some artist's castoff shoes. Later, in fancier finery, Kiki lounged in the wicker chairs at the Cafe du Dome or sang in her Pernod-husky voice ("I could never sing if I was sober") at the two-by-four cabaret called the Jockey Club...
...Castoff. In Rio de Janeiro, Amalia, an aging elephant, took sick, was purged, passed an old tennis shoe...