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Kirk said he saw a short, thin, Black man wearing a "big black overcoat and white hat" enter Serendipity, leave the store with "one garment" and drive away in a blue two-door Chevy toward Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS IN BRIEF | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

...induces a feeling as warm as an overcoat or cream and maroon muffler, a feeling that tells you, "You've made...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: The Harvard Club Is Calling | 5/2/1990 | See Source »

Over and over, as if to exorcise the evil of Nicolae Ceausescu's ironfisted 24-year reign, national television last week replayed the taped record of his final ignominious hours. Haggard, wrapped in a fur-lined overcoat, his hair in tangles, he sat with his wife Elena behind two folding tables pushed together to form a makeshift dock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania Unfinished Revolution | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

...however, the myth of the New World plutocrat persisted. This was still the impression that Gatzoyiannis gave when he met the boat that carried his motherless children from Piraeus to New York City in 1949. Gage, then nine, recalls his father's "gleaming black oxfords, gray overcoat, and broad fedora -- an island of style in a sea of weeping and embracing refugees." The reunited family boarded a new blue DeSoto for the ride to Worcester. The car turned out to be rented, the old mill town no Athens, and Christos Gatzoyiannis no big shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Some Kind Of Hero | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...interest is low, it's certainly not because the issue isn't pervasive. Just now, a familiar figure with a shredded overcoat and shopping cart brimming with empty soda cans has stopped outside my dorm window, inspecting his inventory, maybe worrying about the onset of frigid nights. The march is for him, and for his family...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Sardines on Washington | 10/5/1989 | See Source »

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