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...Colonel lunched with Prime Minister Tetsu Katayama and his Cabinet, and received a lapel pin-a silver chrysanthemum. He made Japanese front pages by saying (as Japanese jingoes had said before) that Japan was overpopulated, and that Australia was just the place to relieve the "pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel in Tokyo | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...striped suit, double-breasted, with shoulders that I can grab in my fist and make look like a football. The Editor doesn't forget anything. He finds me a tie that leaves me as flat as warm beer, and then insists I put a ruptured duck in the lapel of the suit, and find a shirt that isn't button-down. The hat I wear looks like something out of the Front Page...

Author: By Mister X, | Title: Mr. X Goes to Dartmouth | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

...lilies-of-the-valley. A giant tulip tree in the grove behind the house had grown so much he failed to recognize it. While he was wandering about the grounds, four-year-old Marilyn Kielbasa caught up with him, stuck a pink carnation in his lapel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PRIME MINISTRY: Native's Return | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...anxiety over the veterans themselves, Congress did not forget the veterans' kin. One bill started the ball rolling on designs for a "Gold Star Lapel Button." Parents of men killed in World War II will get them free; brothers and sisters, at cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Bonanza | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...impromptu (and anonymous) conversations on the air, Candid Mike's producer-narrator, Allen Funt, combs Manhattan street corners, hotels, doorsteps, restaurants-any spot where people meet and talk-with his tape recorder. He disguises the mike in a sling, as a hearing aid, hides it under his lapel or sets it on a pawnshop counter covered by a "for sale" sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Last Threshold | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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