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...with a prematurely balding head and a rakish hussar's mustache, appeared on the hotel terrace, plumped his 225 pounds into a wicker chair and ordered a Coca-Cola. He wore the standard summer garb of the well-dressed Riviera yachtsman-grey flannel slacks, navy blue jacket and white yachting cap. The plump, darkly pretty young woman who accompanied him wore a similar costume. For 15 minutes, His Majesty sat in massive silence. An aide brought him a newspaper. He scanned the headlines, threw the paper on the floor and jumped to his feet. Within a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Locomotive | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...Coyo's shockingly unethical solution is the core of Clement Richer's novel, which the book jacket accurately calls "an immoral fable for sophisticated people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fable from Martinique | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

George Washington also turned up in the art news again-this time as a rather foxy-faced gentleman in a braided blue jacket. A picture portraying him in such fashion, long mistitled A Naval Officer, now hangs in Sulgrave Manor, ancestral Northamptonshire home of the Washington family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Face Lifting in Brooklyn | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...Ready for the opening of school next month, Chicago department stores are featuring: for kindergarten, coonskin caps; for finger-painting class, dusters and smocks; for boys of seven and up, a ten-way suit with jacket & pants to match, extra pants of another color, a vest that is a solid color on one side and plaid on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...four friends surveyed their finished craft, they saw a crate whose fuselage had only three seats, whose engine was Polish, whose tail wheel came from a Nazi Messerschmitt, whose carburetors and exhaust stacks were American. A split rudder panel had been patched with strips of an old leather jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Three Men & a Girl | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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