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Reaching a Verdict. In Winston-Salem, N.C., a woman juror stalked out of the jury room, snatched her scarf and handbag, told Judge Robert Gambrill: "There was so much talking, fussing and carrying on that I've had all I want of it." Scratching the Surface. In Minneapolis, Municipal Judge Tom Bergin and Patrolman Robert Lyons collided in their cars on their way to a police school on traffic safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...western Yoruba country or the rainbow hues of the east. The Emir of Kano arrived at the entrance of the Parliament in a glittering Rolls-Royce, its horn blaring. In walked the popular Finance Minister, Chief Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh, wearing a straw boater and a figured scarf that trailed 4 yds. behind him. A jovial group of eastern M.P.s drove up in a red Dodge convertible with a big stuffed toy tiger propped up on the back seat. Finally the Speaker, in his legislative robes and wig, strode majestically into the chamber, followed by the sergeant at arms bearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH AFRICA: With Malice from Some | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...crammed the schedule. The designers played up what the fashion buffs call "wearability" (sensible clothes that fit in pretty well with any style or season) and "packability" (fresh emphasis on lightweight and non-crush, drip-dry convenience fabrics). There was a smart swing to dresses made from printed scarf material, dresses with matching jackets, and two-layer "tunics," i.e., a sheath ending above the knee, with a longer sheath of matching or different color underneath. There was a slim look in hats, a chunky look in jewelry and a gentle look in the spring colors-notably beige, bone and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Wearable & Salable | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...famed TV shows, Ford's coast-to-coast Star time and WNTA's New York-area Play of the Week, found their material last week in old Broadway melodramas about psychopathic killers (scarf-strangling variety). On a $38,000 budget Play of the Week presented a chilling, full-length production (two hours) of Alexander' Knox's The Closing Door, excellently played by Dane Clark and Kim Hunter. With some $200,000, NBC's Startime presented Audie Murphy in an hour-long condensation of Mel Dinelli's The Man, worked up little interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW TALK: Waifs, Whiffs, Etc. | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

County Sheriff Earl Robinson and Garden City police found the other bodies: Wife Bonnie in an upstairs bedroom, Herb Clutter and his son Kenyon in the basement. The killers had murdered coolly, systematically. They had bound their victims hand and foot with nylon cord, gagged Nancy with a scarf and the others with two-inch-wide adhesive tape. Then, one by one, they had slaughtered the Clutters, shooting each in the face with a shotgun held a few inches away. Before or after shooting Herbert Clutter, the murderers had cut Clutter's throat. Whatever terrible rage seethed inside them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: in Cold Blood | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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