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...parliamentarians' briefcases were battered with use. A white-robed monk, a grey-haired Negro, a red-fezzed Arab and half a dozen women (where women never had a place before) were sprinkled through the Assembly. In the gallery sat U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, British Ambassador Alfred Duff Cooper, Russian Ambassador Alexander Bogomolov. On a front bench sat General de Gaulle...
Into Paris trooped elegant Alfred Duff Cooper and his exactress wife, Lady Diana, heading a safari of secretaries, clerks and baggage-bearers. They took one look at the Embassy on the rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. The high-ceilinged building had been turned into a warehouse by British subjects, who stored so much furniture in it that the floors will have to be re-enforced before the building can be used again. The Ambassador and his lady moved into a suite at the Hotel Barclay...
...right: you guessed it We refer to Colonel H. Duff Cornelius...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, one of England's most English beauties, onetime actress (in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle), now wife of the British Ambassador to Algiers, found North African markets poor, promptly borrowed a cow and set it to graze on the grounds of the British Embassy, also populated by two partridges, a gazelle. Lady Diana further astonished Algiers by practicing the dairymaid chore she had learned on her farm in Bognor, England-she milked...
...dingy, drafty former stable in Ottawa where sit the seven judges of Canada's Supreme Court in scarlet, ermine-trimmed robes and black, tricornered hats, one chair will be empty this week. Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff, the Dominion's own counterpart of the late great Oliver Wendell Holmes, is retiring...