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...tours of the freezing Korean battlefront, stood stiffly to attention during the playing of the Korean or U.S. national anthems, the wind winnowing his thin white hair, his battered grey felt hat clutched to his breast. But on other occasions, particularly when he is tired, the aged President will droop. Whenever Madame Rhee thinks that a visitor has over stayed, she will interrupt with some such remark as "Poppa, do you haff coffee or tea this afternoon?" Hearing her voice, Rhee's thousand-wrinkled face will crease into a smile. In private the President calls Madame Rhee "Momma...
...comatose little cotton town on U.S. Highway 81, half an hour's drive from the Texas border. But a fortnight ago, Comanche's undertaker, a chubby, balding go-getter named Glen Boydstun, decided to put the town on the map. His inspiration: a news item announcing that droop-eyed Bill Cook, cold-blooded killer of six, was to be executed (TIME, Dec. 22) in the gas chamber at California's San Quentin prison...
...masks when they held up the bank at Cokeville, Wyo. one hot afternoon back in September 1911. Downtown Cokeville consisted of five saloons, one Mormon meeting house, a mercantile store, a hotel and Old Lady Ryan's eating house. It had one automobile, 350 people and enough droop-eared, hitching-rack broncs to keep the flies moderately busy. Hugh was 23 and Charley was only...
...latest in the line of Smith presidents is a short, lanky, Texan who combines a Harvard accent with a southern drawl. The astute female undergraduate would quickly point out that whisps of his red hair droop quietly over his right eye, and that he is always smiling. She might go on to say that Benjamin F. Wright is very, very popular in Northampton...
...covey of psychiatrists clustered in Oklahoma City federal court one day last week to do a job of head-candling on Missouri's droop-eyed killer, Billy Cook. But their numbers only seemed to cloud the issue at hand-whether Billy, who killed six people in cold blood on a transcontinental murder spree (TIME, Jan. 22), was sane enough to stand trial for his crimes. Three said he was, four said he was not. Confronted with such guidance, Federal Judge Stephen Chandler decided next day that Cook was sane enough to plead guilty but not sane enough...