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Lawrence P. Trainor, organizer, Boston local, Socialist Workers Party (nee Trotskyites) continued. "McCarthy is not through, even if he isn't the Republican hero he was in 1952 . . . he is speaking for all the incipient fascists. American imperialism is at the cross-roads!" A middle-aged woman in a shawl nodded. "That, in turn," Trainor barked, "calls for a counterpoint turn of the Marxists. Living life demands an answer. . .that is reality and reality will face us, even if we don't face...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: "It Don't Take an Einstein" | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...spinsters' brother, Sterling, promptly bought the Prophet a $3,900 Lincoln as a token of gratitude. The two women decided to give him something even more wonderful-a full-length let-out white mink coat with a raglan flare-back, shawl collar, scarlet silk lining and deep flap pockets lined with velvet. This took some time. The girls had to scrape up $2,000 for a down payment and agree to pay off the total price of $12,900 plus carrying charges at a rate of $475 a month. The astounded New York furrier who was commissioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Preview for the Prophet | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...pumped a trombone, trying vainly to look as little like a bank clerk as possible. By the curb, a small aging woman held out her tambourine. An S.A. cap sat on her stringy grey curls; her eyes all pity, piety and purity. Thin shoulders were covered by a ragged shawl and she wore galoshes. Not a pair of eyes passed she didn't peer into, not a pair didn't falter; not a hand didn't change into her tambourine. Christmas spirit went with every "Bless...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Toyland | 12/19/1952 | See Source »

Touring India to glean material for a book on "the economic possibilities" of the country, Eleanor Roosevelt stopped in Karachi where the All-Pakistan Women's Association presented her with a souvenir, a colorful dopatta (shawl) which she promptly put on for the benefit of photographers. Later, after a dinner party in Lahore where eight little Pakistani girls did a Punjabi folk dance, Mrs. Roosevelt amazed and delighted the guests by going through a 15-minute exhibition of the Virginia Reel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Words & Music | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

kiwi's rain-shawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poems for the Eye | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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