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Nancy Carroll '51, one of the girl's whose money was stolon, described the woman as middle aged, wearing a black coat and a red and white kerchief. The robbery was not reported to the police...
...wind-bitten old woman, her brow furrowed beneath her black kerchief, kept her eyes on her hands as she knitted. "I go," said Mrs. Helen Hildebrand, "because most of my family is going." At 75 she was leaving Canada, with six of her eight children, 51 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Last week, in Winnipeg, they joined 1,608 other Mennonites (total in Canada: 111,380) who were bound for sparsely populated Paraguay, where Mennonites from Europe have already settled to lead their strict way of life...
...raised white platform in Delhi's Untouchable colony sat the Mahatma, cross-legged on a white cushion, a cooling wet white kerchief covering his bald head. Overhead glimmered a lone 80-watt electric bulb. Reluctantly he assented to the splitting of India. "What is past is past," he mourned. "I cannot blame the Viceroy for what has happened. It was an act of Congress and the League...
...Avenue. It was cold and windy, and he had his face buried in his collar. Above him, on the roof of a 15-story apartment building, Mrs. Natalie Biro, a blonde, 36-year-old radio actress, was getting ready to commit suicide. She had tied her hair in a kerchief, put on slacks (which would not billow in the wind) and pinned her purse to them. Two seconds after she closed her eyes and jumped she landed squarely on the head and shoulders of Alexander Cook, smashing him to the sidewalk, killing herself...
...long evening gowns-and she likes "hair that looks like-hair." Said daughter Sarah of father Winston's tastes in women's wear: "Oh, he takes violent likes and dislikes to things." Mrs. Churchill-in a blue-&-white dress, her white hair bound in a brightly flowered kerchief-elaborated authoritatively: "He really prefers just plain black or white...