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...blind right eye, but as he stopped the car he turned to look at his lone passenger. She was Valsa Anna Matthai, 21, a pretty Indian girl from Bombay, a Columbia University student. She was not wearing the Indian sari pulled over her hair, but a bright kerchief; and as she walked out of the empty, lighted lobby, the operator noticed she wore a tan polo coat, dark slacks, and sport shoes. She had no bag. The street lights along Riverside Drive made pale yellow pools on the drifted snow, but beyond, Grant's Tomb and the park sloping...
...weary Fifth's infantry had fought across one of Italy's most famous battlegrounds. Here, in the damp autumn of 1860, bearded Giuseppe Garibaldi, poncho-clad and kerchief around his brow, had walked among his ragged redshirts, crying, "Courage! Courage!" Here, on the Capuan plain, he had beaten the Bourbon King of Naples and advanced Italy a long step toward liberation and unity...
...most of us are third-generation Americans. Grandfather did his best to leave the Old Country behind him, to train Father to be an American. He also berated Father for being too "American" in his free & easy attitude towards his parents. Father suffered from seeing Grandmother "wear a kerchief over her head," was embarrassed by Grandfather's "broken accent." Father carried into American life "the attitude of the second-generation American"-"a combination of contempt and avoidance" for European things and people. So strong was this attitude, says Miss Mead, that it often became the dominant national spirit...
...strange thing," wrote New York Times Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger, "to wander through this factory and see hundreds of peasant women, each with a bright kerchief around her head, stamping out and testing intricate machine parts. Men are doing the heaviest types of work and dozens of young technical students in their teens are employed as apprentices. The factory works day & night. The workers are on the job wartime hours-eleven a day, six days a week...
...come as a tourist. He had flown to London four weeks ago to demand that the third clause of the Atlantic Charter (right of self-determination of nations) be applied to Burma too. Through London for a full day he had strutted in silken toga and colored skirt, silk kerchief on his head, then had switched to European garb because of London's cold. Last fortnight he saw Prime Minister Churchill, for whom he had brought a box of Burma's Kipling-famed cheroots...