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...surveyed his full dresser drawers and then his suitcase. He wondered where he was going to put all this stuff. How did he ever get it up three flights? The amount of junk a guy can accumulate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 8/30/1946 | See Source »

...murder-suicide of a lonely elderly couple in a Los Angeles hotel room. The cub, Phoebe Millicent Hearst, out on her first gory crime story, stared with elaborate calm at the bodies on the bed. Then she turned away to help brisk Agness Underwood, her tutor, rifle through the dresser drawers for pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Such Interesting People | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...good but undistinguished student at Fordham, a Jesuit college but no seminary. He wrote poetry, excelled in Latin, helped build a wireless set as a member of the Secchi Scientific Society. He was a careful dresser, and liked convivial company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: America in Rome | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Missouri-born Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, military aide to President Truman, is a large, uninhibited man, a veteran at draw poker. Genial and democratic to boot, Reserve Officer Vaughan is neither a finicky nor a formal dresser: in the White House he often does not bother to put on a blouse or cinch up his necktie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Uncensored Dope | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Scanty Evidence. In Long Beach, Calif., Joan Morton won a divorce after testify ing that her jealous husband flew off the handle when his laundry erred and he discovered a pair of men's shorts four sizes too big for him in his own dresser drawer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 25, 1945 | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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