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Last week the police found one more clue-a shoe and scarf lying near a glazed-over hole in the ice and snow covering the Cambridge reservoir. The scarf was identical with the one father Clark was wearing: his wife had given one to him and one to Tom for Christmas. Next day, when divers found Tom's body under the ice, authorities concluded that in the darkness he must have mistaken the reservoir for a snow-covered meadow. "Another victim," said Tom's father wearily, "of a criminal fraternity prank." At week's end, Deke national...
...move or stand still with feral ladylikeness. But not till a few corks have popped does she attain full stature. She is never so grand as when lurching, nor so gymnastic as when trapped in telephone cord. She employs her cigarette holder like a wind instrument, makes her gold scarf as vital to the production as several of the actors. She strikes attitudes so embattled that they seem to strike back, and she can dispose herself on a sofa to resemble the whole Laocoon group...
Models for this feature include: Dory Briggs, Carol E. Jacobs, Jean Harper, Grace Hill, Gail Finkel, Edward Abramson, Olivar Woodburn, Gregory Stone, Stephen Wald, Edward R. Chalfin, John Grady, William Prescott and George Hatch. Picture credits: Six foot scarf--Jeffrey A. Barach; Silhouette--Stephen F. Ells...
...farm outside Gettysburg, the thermometer stood at 25°, and the President's breath blew white in Pennsylvania's crackling morning air. He was the picture of the gentleman farmer, in crepe-soled shoes, brown slacks, soft blue sweater, suede sport coat, cashmere scarf and broad Stetson. From the house he walked 300 yards (the last 100 uphill) to a spot near the barn, there to receive a gift that any farmer would welcome...
...details of conspiratsia involve the dimmest kind of drudgery. No thriller writer would condescend to invent a scene as clumsily conceived as the actual meeting of two spies in a Geneva street. One of them thus summarized his instructions from Moscow: "I was to be wearing a white scarf and to be holding in my right hand a leather belt. As the clock struck noon, I would be approached by a woman . . . holding an orange in her hand . . . [She] would ask me in English where I had bought the belt; and I was to reply that I had bought...