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...boys* had started out by stealing a .30-30 rifle from an unlocked car. Then they broke into a truck, stole cigarettes. Thus equipped, they headed out of town, hid in a ditch, and waited. Soon a car came along. One of the boys, masked with a handkerchief, sprang up, fired a warning shot. The car did not halt. There was another shot, a scream from the car, a slithering to a stop. Farmer James Millar Watson, 62, had been mortally wounded. A week later, when one of the boys confessed, police took them to jail...
...manager poked his head in and announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed a handkerchief over his shaven pate. "Ai-yah," he groaned...
...handkerchief stunt was big stuff in that period. Certain students in sections 31 and 33 got tickets marked "RED HANDKERCHIEF" before the Yale game. Rushing to Brine's, Leavitt and Peirce, the Coop, etc. these fellows bought crimson handkerchiefs to keep in their pockets until the half...
...Cold. Ike donned horn-rimmed spectacles to read his 20-minute inaugural address, stopping once to snuffle into a handkerchief because of a bad cold. The new president's address was proper, unexciting, and meant to reassure everyone that he had laid down his sword & shield. Said Eisenhower: "If this were a land where the military profession is a weapon of tyranny or aggression-its members an elite caste dedicated to its own perpetuation-a lifelong soldier could hardly assume my present role. But in our nation the Army is the servant of the people ... Hence, among...
Like all gossip columnists, Irv Kupcinet finds nightclubs exciting, and gets some of the excitement into his column. Every night, sportily dressed in a shirt with long Sinatra-style points (and with KUP loudly emblazoned on his handkerchief, tie clasp, cuff links and gold ring) he patrols such spots as Chez Paree and the Shangri-La, slapping backs, sipping coffee, soaking up column items. His red-haired wife tags along, often wearing a blouse stenciled with his columns. He haunts the Pump Room of the swank Ambassador East Hotel, a telephone plugged in at his table. Even at home, where...