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...carried his luggage wrapped in a bandanna. When he arrived at the big resort of Nikko he went to a tailor shop, got his silk shirt and white trousers pressed for 20 sen (6?), searched until he found a hotel he liked. "My room and two meals each day in this, perhaps the very finest native inn in all Japan, was two yen fifty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four on Japan | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Continuing in the financial vein, between February 1 and June 1, you will have earned $260 as Midshipmen, out of which you received $40 in cash. Subtract your Coop, laundry, and tailor bills, ship's service charges, and special withdrawals, and you will know how much to expect . . . maybe...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

...loved gentle, cigar-smoking Emil Von Elling. He started coaching track at N.Y.U. 30 years ago, when few New York City college boys had ever seen a spiked shoe. Now some 150 boys turn out each year for his team. He finds them fascinating as individuals, likes to tailor a different set of exercises and training schedule for each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Milers' Teacher | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...Phantom. In The Bronx, Robert Johnson failed to outwit the police. They charged he threw a barrel full of ashes through a tailor-shop window, went in and emptied the barrel, filled it up with clothes, and tried to make his getaway wrestling his burden down the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...Silence the delicacy of the veil over the sleeping girl's face, the pearl-like drops of water, suggested the Dutch masters. Milena's superb taste falters only rarely, notably in her portrait of her Royal cousin, which might have graced the shop windows of a military tailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Barilli of Belgrade | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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