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...Shah, after patting the bureaucrats' heads, tried to disengage himself. He looked tired, and as he made his way down the reception line past teary-eyed officials, his own eyes filled too. He clasped Ambassador Henderson's hand heartily; he gave Soviet Envoy Anatoly Lavrentiev a perfunctory handclasp. Then he was off to the palace in a limousine, under hastily erected triumphal arches and past cheering crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The People Take Over | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...villagers. Widely recognized as one of the best in India, Vellore Hospital has topflight specialists from four continents and dispenses the latest wonder drugs. But to many a patient, lying scared as she awaits the anesthetist's mask, the most comforting feature is the gentle but firmly reassuring handclasp of Dr. Scudder, the woman who decided to follow family tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Family Tradition | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...like a compactly built college athlete than a fighter. He has the rich tan and softspoken, self-effacing manner (though not the grammar) of a children's swimming instructor at a country club. To strengthen his heavy weapons, Rocky wears out rubber balls with repeated squeezings, yet his handclasp is tentative as a pianist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...used in the picture had been sold. The sale was doubtless helped by Lanza's technique of plugging his records and films like a disc jockey from the concert stage-an unorthodox practice that pains some traditionalists even more than his habit of acknowledging applause with the overhead handclasp of a prizefighter. Yet no one quite foresaw what a hit the movie would be. Some of MGM's top brass took a gloomy view on the theory that the U.S. public would not buy anything heavier than Victor Herbert in so large a dose. But after the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Million-Dollar Voice | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...which ranchers built themselves two years ago) to pray and listen to Brother Hoyt Boles, a hefty, plain-spoken Presbyterian from Denton, Texas, and Brother Bob Goodrich, a Methodist from Dallas. There was no shouting or breast-beating. Even conversions came quietly, with only the exchange of a firm handclasp between minister and convert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Under the Prayer Tree | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

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