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Potatoes Collect Poison. When Retinger first went to Kent to visit Conrad, the rosy literary agent J. B. Pinker was still keeping the novelist just one jump ahead of starvation. Conrad, then a little over 50, "even to the old-fashioned sort of brown greatcoat . . . seemed, indeed, a typical Polish landowner from the Ukraine." In Conrad's decaying Cadillac, Retinger got his first taste of the driving which horrified Conrad's family...
...German scouting force put out into the Skagerrak, leading the High Seas Fleet, heading into the greatest battle in modern naval history, Jutland, Vice Admiral Hipper paced the bridge of the scouting force flagship Lützow, with his binoculars dangling on the breast of his blue greatcoat. In the chart room near by stood Franz Hipper's chief of staff: Erich Raeder, brave in the four stripes of a captain...
...dark, the three guards in the car relaxed. Squadron Leader von Werra opened a window, jumped out, struck westward through the woods to a highway. His facile French got him a ride from a French-Canadian who could not see the German tunic under his passenger's civilian greatcoat. Soon Franz von Werra was in Ottawa. There he begged a road map from a filling station, hitched a ride to somnolent Prescott. All that lay between him and freedom was the broad St. Lawrence. But at that point the river was not frozen over. After dark Werra stole...
...spoke Woodrow Wilson on a fresh, sunny winter day 27 years ago, in his first inaugural address. Among his many listeners was Franklin Roosevelt, 31 years old, light-haired, lean, tall, a bit dandified, bundled "in a greatcoat against the chill...
...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. From the beginning, much of their box-office success has been the work of one man. Fortnight ago, as the ballet season neared its end in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, that man took part in a performance of Petrouchka. A Russian greatcoat swathed his solid form, false whiskers his jowls; a fur hat veiled his glabrous dome. S. (for "Sol" for Solomon) Hurok, impresario of the ballet, was playing a super. With him, similarly disguised, was Sportsman-Angel Julius Fleischmann (yeast), head of World-Art, Inc., which owns the ballet...