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...Pacific at 5 a.m., and it shines through the window of a lonely, olive-drab Quonset hut. On the rocky, typhoon-tossed island of Culion, a leprosarium 200 miles southwest of Manila, Bachelor Harold Baar awakes, puts on a pair of shorts and tennis shoes, ties a red bandanna around his neck, cooks his breakfast and gets set for a day's work. Shirtless and hatless in the hot sun, he meets with ten afflicted Filipino families, shows them how to plant, plow, repair a tractor, tries to fill them with knowledge that will help them win back respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANS ABROAD: Three Kings of Orient | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Held up by Middlesex traffic while driving Princess Anne to Windsor Great Park, bandanna-topped Queen Elizabeth II checked her right of way like any Levittown housewife meeting the 5:12, later dressed up in jeweled finery to catch the looth anniversary concert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...famed and durable (1921-48, except for five years) Liberal Prime Minster. When John was eight, father Diefenbaker took his family to a Saskatchewan crossroads where the northern prairies turn into a subarctic wasteland of muskeg, timber and lakes. There one day father Diefenbaker tied a red bandanna to the rim of a wagon wheel and, counting the turns of the wheel, measured off a 160-acre homestead. That spring he broke the virgin sod to the plow and put in his first crop of wheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Prairie Lawyer | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Instead of velvet or calico, the current Wellesleyite sometimes wears bluejeans, and often a man's shirt. In class, with a bandanna about her head, she sometimes looks a bit like a glamorized peasant woman trying to learn English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Matilda Klopenheimer" ate first shift dinner with Cabot Hall residents last night, and was then placed on social pro for wearing her hair in a pincurl and bandanna. Though she excused her bass voice by saying she suffered from a slight attack of laryngitis, her unfamiliarity with the Radclice routine made her position doubtful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothes Make the 'Woman' | 11/9/1948 | See Source »

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