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...Would you come running up the stairs late, Mr. Hunter," a Globe photographer said, "wiping your head with your handkerchief? Oh, you don't have a handkerchief. Here, use mine. Now running up smiling and looking late please. That's fine. Now would you do it again, please. Just in case the pic doesn't turn...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: The Penultimate Ha | 10/24/1958 | See Source »

Loot Song. In Sydney, Australia, police, after finding a traffic summons with his name and address on it inside a burglarized garage, nabbed Brian William Quinn, 22, who pleaded guilty to the robbery, explained: "I must have dropped the summons when I took out my handkerchief to wipe off my fingerprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Andy Hardy Comes Home (Fryman; MGM) might well bring the handkerchief industry out of the recession all by itself. For the first time since 1946, Mickey Rooney, now a ripening 35, has dusted off the old studio flats, put them all together and spelled not only MOTHER but all the other ingredients of smalltown nostalgia. It promises to be profitable: the first 15 of the hardy Andy episodes were among the most successful series in movie history, grossing $73,850,000 and making Child Star Rooney the nation's top box-office draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...Egypt, roared "Ya Gamal!" (O Gamal!). At length, the huge square stilled, and the President and his honor guests from Iraq waited briefly, during a reading from the Koran: "Those who oppose truth will die angry, but we will conquer." Then, mopping the sweat off his face with a handkerchief, Nasser launched into his speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: O My Brothers | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...tension increased as they came to the measurements. The friend refolded his handkerchief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By Special Appointment | 5/31/1958 | See Source »

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