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...Texas, Wyoming, Maryland, Illinois and New York, soldiers for the last year have worn a new, experimental uniform. Instead of the olive drab standard since War I, the color was a sporty slate blue. Instead of baggy breeches, rounded below the knees for leggings, trousers hung straight and trim. Tunics cut loosely at the shoulders made for more comfort and utility in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: New Suit | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Trim Arthur C. Johnson is editor and associate publisher of the Columbus Dispatch, president of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, a trustee of Ohio University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prophecy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Studebaker's low-priced Champion, Commander and President ($660 to $1,095) have lost almost all exterior fixtures except close-fitting door handles. Trim and neat, the 1940s have new hood locks, optional overdrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...like a tropical monsoon, scripters were hard put to it to keep him from thawing icy Gail too fast, convincing her too soon that woman's place is in the home when not in the maternity ward. Vainly trying to stave off this inevitable ending, they tossed in trim Noel Van Ness (Danish-born Cinemactress Osa Massen), also blown in from Bali and quite tropical too about Burnett. When that fails, the story just starts running around in circles, from Nassau to Bali to Manhattan. Hero MacMurray is like Poet Kenneth Fearing's hero: wow he woos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Certain it was that many publishers, thinking only of the war blast and how to trim their sales to it, were neglecting for the moment their interests in literature of the permanent kind, but farseeing publishers noted one provocative fact in the publishing history of World War I. Buried in the lists were first books of such unknowns as Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books in War | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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