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...locking Ike in an affectionate bear hug, while the others roared, cheered and dabbed at their eyes. Ike broke away and started for the door. At the doorway he paused and clasped his hands over his head in a prizefighter's salute. Then, digging for his own handkerchief, he swung out the door and into U.S. politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Home to the Wars | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...arraying himself in exquisite evening dress: "Tails by Lesley and Roberts in Hanover Square, waistcoat by Hawes and Curtis . . . silk hat by Locke . . . monk shoes by Fortnum and Mason's . . . crystal and diamond links by Boucheron . . . gold cigarette case by Asprey ... a drop of rose geranium on my handkerchief." But Beverley was not at ease. While he dressed and sipped a sidecar, he stared into his mirror and asked himself anxiously: "What is wrong with you? Why aren't you happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man with a Horn | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...Prime Minister rose slowly, savoring a minute-long ovation from the government side. His face-pink, smooth and beaming-wore a misleadingly benign, born-yesterday look. But a white handkerchief protruded like a jaunty battle flag above his pocket. Coolly Churchill adjusted his oratorical bombsight and loosed the first blockbuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Tory Triumph | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...dinner engagement at St. Francis Hospital in nearby Jersey City, and when he appeared, holding a handkerchief to his face, Sister Amalia, the superintendent, suggested that he go to the clinic. Brother Salesius protested at first that it was merely a bump, and his injuries amounted to nothing. Then he told about the attack, but he asked her not to tell the three members of his order who were traveling with him, for fear they might worry unduly about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brother of the Poor | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Touchback. In Bridgeport, Ohio, when parents complained that members of the high-school football squad were undergoing too strenuous training, Coach Al Blat-nik put them to playing drop the handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 5, 1951 | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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