Word: overcoats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn next morning a rescue party of experienced climbers set off up the mountain. It was mid-afternoon when they came back, pulling a lifeless, blanket-covered form on a toboggan. The vicar came out to meet them. Head bare, his overcoat collar turned up around his neck, he read from a prayer book: "Into thy hands, O merciful Saviour, we commend the soul of thy servant, now departed from the body . . ." Then he bent over the toboggan and wept...
Barefoot Boy. In his boyhood, Dick was a source of some family embarrassment. He wouldn't wear shoes. When the neighbors saw him walking around on cold days wearing a hat and overcoat but no shoes, some of them thought his parents couldn't or wouldn't buy him any. Not until he was twelve was he consistently shod. At 54 he still likes to pad barefoot around the farm when he is home, and around the house when he is in Washington. Says he: "I still don't like slippers...
Meanwhile, Bruce R. Recker '52, producer of "The Mikado," said that two cast members yesterday reported the theft of an overcoat and a suitcoat, bringing the total loss to over $300. Over $200 worth of coats, suits, ties, pocketbooks, and records were first reported stolen Saturday night...
...helicopter, tucked his brown briefcase under his arm and strode purposefully toward the conference tents. He was Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby, commander of U.S. Cruiser Division 3, who has been detached for temporary duty as a U.N. delegate to the truce conference. The admiral wore a plain Navy overcoat without stripes or shoulder boards; only his gold-braided cap marked him as a naval officer. Said a British newsman who was watching the scene: "If you switched that cap of Libby's for a Homburg, he'd look like any banker or solicitor arriving...
Inside Man. On the central front, Korea, a captured Chinese soldier who wore several layers of underwear, two quilted uniforms, a double-breasted overcoat, new boots and winter cap, explained: "I'm a supply sergeant...