Word: stetsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...green grass Pedro Juan Caballero airstrip. Soon, two silvery Douglas transports circled and landed, bringing Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Arthur Ageton and other local and foreign dignitaries. Forward to greet them stepped Clarence Earl Johnson, a 6-ft, 200-lb. Texan in a white Stetson, faded blue jeans with pearl buttons, and cowhide boots...
Recently, our Subscription Service Department in Chicago received an appeal from Subscriber Russell Stetson of Sharon, Mass. He wrote: "Could you help me repossess a watch which is probably now in possession of a part of your organization? I will then be able to look...
...Stetson had placed the watch, belonging to his son, Robert, 14, in a TIME business-reply envelope to take it to a jeweler. Accidentally, the envelope, without return address, got mailed with some letters Stetson was carrying in his pocket. Sure enough, the watch was in Subscription's "Waiting for Missing Owners Dept." Last week Subscriber Stetson was again on speaking terms with Robert: the watch was finally at the jeweler...
...Justice seemed undisturbed. He sat on the poop of the barge holding a branch of forsythia, smiling and doffing his tan Stetson. When the party climbed out onto the Georgetown cobblestones at the end of the trip, he seemed as fresh and springy of step as ever. But as he got into his chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile to go home, certain marks of wilderness attrition were unmistakably evident: somehow, somewhere, Justice Douglas had got his chin into some poison...
...which moved down the York River and anchored after he came aboard. Next day it slid into a dock at Norfolk, while white-clad sailors stood at attention on the flight decks of two flag-dressed aircraft carriers. Ike went ashore again, this time wearing a light, Truman-like Stetson hat to 1) confer with Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, commander of the North Atlantic Treaty naval forces, and 2) play golf at Sewells Point Golf Club, where he turned...