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Later, after blackened bodies had been taken in gunny sacks to an improvised morgue, numbed relatives listened to undertakers' assistants: "Does a heart-shaped locket mean anything to anyone? Does a very plain wedding ring worn on the right hand mean anything? Here is a red linen handkerchief with the words 'Bonnie Scotland' on it, and a ruby ring." By week's end the dead were counted at 31, including the special's engine crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: MANITOBA: Death at Dugald | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...appeared for inspection, he spotted the first. The boatswain solemnly dispatched Brown to cut it. "Why Brown?" barked Illingworth. "Send the man who tied it there while I was watching him a half hour ago." Telling this story, Illingworth last week bounded about his quarters illustratively tying a handkerchief here, sticking a piece of paper there, until the bright, paneled room seemed aflutter with Irish pennants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: The Queen | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Every Sunday before broadcast time (3 p.m. E.D.T., ABC), to "warm up" the studio audience, Lassie yips, yowls, quivers, limps, rolls over and generally works himself into a lather (which Weatherwax wipes off with a clean handkerchief). Then he bounds onto a table, squats with his snout a professional six inches from the mike. "On-the-air" is signaled, Lassie barks, the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Almost Human | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...addition is Cyril Ritchard, who plays Tattle, described in the program as "a half-witted bean, vain of his amours, yet valuing himself for secrecy." Favored with the most rewarding role, Ritchard struts about, using always the right high-pitched tone and the right decadent sweep of his silk handkerchief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

...from a blacksmith's tub, or the touch of a dead man's hand, will cure facial blemishes. A girl should never comb her hair at night, for this will "lower a gal's nature." On the last night of April, a girl may wet a handkerchief and hang it out in a cornfield. Next morning the May sun dries it and the wrinkles will show the initial of the man she is to marry. When a girl sleeps with her legs crossed, she is dreaming of her sweetheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charms in the Hills | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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