Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when an eclipse was due at Khartoum in the Sudan last winter, Dr. van Biesbroeck laid plans to do the job for good & all. He took to Khartoum a special telescope, 20 ft. long, and set it up in a fenced and guarded patch of desert belonging to the Sudanese Geodetic Service...
They awoke to a clear, bitter-cold Wednesday. Ike put on his old battle jacket-with no rank insigne, but still sporting the flaming-sword shoulder patch of SHAPE -and wool Army trousers, then added a fur-lined Army field parka and a pile hat. First, he flew off in a little L19 Cessna for a look at the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing (where he asked about the capabilities of MIGs), then on to a briefing at the 1st Marine Division's command post, six miles from the front and well within ground-shaking distance of Marine artillery...
Columbia got a head start on the others, and has already sold more than 1,000,000 copies to U.S. dealers. This makes something of an overnight national musical figure out of Columbia's vocalist: a twelve-year-old freckle-patch named Jimmy Boyd, of Van Nuys, Calif., who has had his own radio program in Los Angeles and is a veteran of five years in show business...
This neat welding of snob appeal on to a cheap car was achieved by Manhattan Adman David Ogilvy, who had also dreamed up the eye patch for the much-copied "man in the Hathaway shirt" (TIME, June 23). No shy huckster, British-born Ogilvy appeared several months ago as the male model in his ads for Helena Rubinstein cosmetics (see cut). But at least one reader did not approve of his latest effort. When he saw the Austin ad, the Rev. John Crocker, headmaster of Groton (tuition and residence: $1,750), said: "It's all news...
...there is left nothing but a poor, forked radish with a head fantastically carved." The last German who ever wore king-gear, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took his Carlylean comeuppance in 1918. His heirs, as a result, have faced the necessity of sinking their roots in the radish patch of common humanity. In The Rebel Prince, his grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert Hohenzollern ("Lulu" to the family), says it was a hard fight but he made...