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Regiments of the Guards* are in the B. E. F., garbed far differently from the bear-skinned beauties whom tourists have seen on their chargers at Whitehall or clumping over the cobbles of Windsor Castle. Bearskins are at home, and the B. E. F. is clad in drab battle costumes cut like mechanics' overalls. They wear rubber boots. Their food comes up in thermos boxes. Their quarters are provided with elaborate drainage systems. Where bullets and bully-beef were their essentials last time, now they depend essentially on petrol and motors. Where being decorative was Guardsmen's principal...
...enough Carnegie juries in action to learn what the public never learns: what artists think of painting. Each year he employs his knowledge to guess the winner before the judges arrive. This year he picked U. S. Painter Alexander Brook's Georgia Jungle, a Negro family against a drab landscape of rain-washed fields and shanties...
...light, durable paper compound. Fort Belvoir camoufleurs "dazzled" visinet drapes with green blotches to resemble vegetation, burnt sienna blotches to blend with Virginia clay soil. Solid color drapes they painted with a mixture of blue, yellow and red oil paints, producing a somewhat greener green than the usual olive drab of U. S. Army trucks. For solid brown drapes they mixed flat burnt umber and yellow ochre coldwater paints, made drapes look like big chocolate bars...
...Princeton University, welcomed undergraduates at the 193rd opening session of Princeton, warned them of propaganda techniques: "You have no weapons to combat them except the clarity and power of your thought processes and a balanced emotional outlook. Let nothing else divert you from using your mind, however painful or drab its use at times may seem...
...praised the skyline in guttural English, tried to explain that he was in the U. S. to pay a debt. Before he could finish his explanation Army officers whisked him away to forbidding old Castle William on Governor's Island, where he was given a pair of olive-drab dungarees to replace his double-breasted suit. For the second time in his life Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (as Prisoner 289) wore a uniform-the prison uniform-of the U. S. Army...