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Friedel Souvignier, who is in her middle 40s, sported a blue turban. Blond, 18-year-old Marianne Souvignier's plump legs were bare. Pretty Inger Schoneneberg, 20, wore a black hat on her black hair and a plaid sports skirt. The four trooped nervously into a restaurant on Kornelimun-ster's town square...
...course of one half-hour's brooding over his grave, situated in a less frequented portion of the city, I saw two American enlisted men, one American Red Cross worker, two plaid-skirted Scottish lieutenants and two Italian girls come to pay their respects...
...stiff, twisted remains had been heaped together as they fell. Some had been officers, some privates; all wore faded blue-grey uniforms and tarnished brass buttons with the Polish eagle still recognizable. Dr. Prozorovsky wore a white smock, an orange apron and red rubber gloves. Kathy had on a plaid skirt, an orange pullover sweater and garnet nail polish...
...Homecoming. That morning the President had returned to Washington from Cairo and Teheran. Tanned and refreshed, he came back dressed in the most informal attire he has yet worn in the White House-a loud blue plaid shirt, loud blue-striped necktie, tan pullover sweater, and grey sharkskin suit...
Tuesday. Franklin Roosevelt needed a haircut. Tufts of grey hair stuck out over his ears, straggled wispily over the top of his head. Coatless, wearing a white shirt and plaid tie, he leaned back in his swivel chair and waited for some 80 reporters to shuffle into a semicircle before his cluttered desk. The familiar signal flags of weariness were up-an air of fatigued abstraction, a dark web of crow's-feet about his eyes, a deep etching of lines in the loose, sand-grey skin of his face...