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...White House toil, and at the urging of White House physician General Wallace Graham to get the President to sleep a little later in the morning. Last week sharp-eyed reporters noted another alteration in the President's personal routine-after years of folding his breast-pocket handkerchief so that four geometrically perfect points protruded, he appeared with a quarter inch of straight, unfolded cloth peeping casually into view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Hike, New Hanky | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...rushes through a newspaper in five minutes, looking just for items of special interest or use to him; he has little general curiosity. His pockets are always stuffed with notes which he can't find, and he can never keep a comb or a pencil or a handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Weighed in the Balance | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...Baltimore, the fans broke a plateglass window trying to get to Mario. In Pittsburgh, where 2,000 paid just to hear him rehearse, two girls had to be taken to the hospital. Says Lanza: "They go for your handkerchief. They go for your buttons. They rip at your lapels. They try to kiss you. Oh, how they try to kiss you! I love every minute of it." While the police grappled with mobs that tore detectives' badges off in their frenzy to reach their idol, Lanza collected an average of $4,530 from box offices in each...

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

...heavy silence of the crowd outside, as Leopold signed the instrument of abdication, three teen-age girls passed a single handkerchief back & forth, dabbing fitfully at welling eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Farewell | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...there been any trouble crossing the Pole? "No," said Blair, a veteran of 23 years and 3,000,000 miles of flying. "It was a very easy flight. I got a nosebleed once and couldn't reach back for a handkerchief. The engine kept throwing oil on the canopy, so I couldn't see too well up ahead. The wings were leaking a little gas, and I didn't want to make any rough landings. But if anything had gone wrong, there was all that ice instead of water to set down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: All That Ice | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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