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...painter was an anthology of quirks -he always wore a hat because he was convinced that the sun's ultraviolet light beating into the skull would destroy the ability to distinguish between nuances of grey; he ordered that the friendly spiders which abounded in his studio should not be disturbed (the maids hid behind the coal pile the mop used for brushing down spiderwebs). He was a patient and humorous father; explaining the meaning of duty to his son, he would recall his own boyhood as a tailor's son. "I had to shell green peas...
...Edinburgh's Princes Street station, he gallantly saluted Queen Elizabeth II, then bussed her on the cheek; in courtly succession, he kissed the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra. As he rode next to the Queen in a state landau drawn by six grey horses, a crowd of 100,000 lined the Royal Mile to the Palace of Holyroodhouse to cheer the sailor King. Then the King was admitted to Scotland's oldest order of chivalry: along with British Foreign Secretary Lord Home, he was dubbed a Knight of the Order...
...middlers and seniors on the vast playing fields-a sea of runners, jumpers, kickers. All get a chance to excel at one of 17 sports, if not on a varsity team, then on one of four intramural teams in each sport-the red-shirted Romans, the green Gauls, the grey Greeks, the orange Saxons. Belonging grows as the morning teacher turns afternoon coach, yelling, "Tail down, Jones!" It mounts in a delirious rally before the Exeter game, and if victory comes, in a yowling torchlight parade and huge campus bonfire, On to Abbot Academy...
...business. Moviegoers have a clear impression of the nature of life on Madison Avenue: it is a combination of Sydney Greenstreet bullying Clark Gable in The Hucksters and Rock Hudson seducing Doris Day in Lover Come Back. In the public mind, the advertising business is firmly established as a grey-flannel world of three-Gibson lunches, three-button jackets, unabashed throat slicing and zany argot ("Let's smear some of this on the cat and see if she licks...
...Number Can Win. One reason for such debate within advertising circles is that admen themselves are not all pressed out by the same cooky cutter, as can be seen in the personal histories of the twelve men on the cover (see box, pp. 92 and 93). Grey flannel was never a uniform on Madison Avenue, and Brooks Brothers suits are not the style in the .flourishing advertising communities of Chicago and St. Louis. More top admen than not come from lower-middle-class families and never saw the inside of an Ivy League college. But any generalization about them...