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Outside on the apron, MacWilliams walked up to his silver twin-engine C-46-one of seven being readied for take-off-and rubbed his finger on its heavy underbelly. "Frost," he said. He called for a crew of men with long-handled mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: What Are We Usually Doing? | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...President also found time to sit three times for an oil portrait showing him in all the regalia to which he is entitled as a Master Mason of the 33rd degree: silk hat, apron, heavy rings on his fingers. When the picture is finished, it will occupy a place of honor in the Masonic Grand Lodge at St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Back in Stride | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...election results led to other oversimplifications. Said a Dutch milkman, hitching up his leather apron: "I am glad -my horse will get more Marshall oats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Oats for My Horse | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Paul Donnelly, credit manager for a shoe company, made her a housewife at 17, and she began making neat, ruffled little "apron frocks" for herself. She decided to start the Donnelly Garment Co. -with $1,270 in savings and two power sewing machines-after a Kansas City store sold out a test order of Nellie's dresses in a few hours. Before long the business was grossing $1,000,000. After that, nothing slowed her up much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Nellie's Big Night | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Over his purple-sashed cassock and heavy gold pectoral cross, Episcopal Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe of Long Island tied a white apron. Over his purple-edged skullcap he put a chef's white hat. In the spacious grounds of his cathedral at suburban Garden City, the bishop was chief cook (but not bottle-washer) at a clambake last week for the Episcopal Actors' Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spiritual Foundations | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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