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...With a delicate gesture," the Journal says, "Harvard whisked the carefully folded handkerchief from the breast pocket of its muted toned jacket and flicked Tech and Loyola on the knuckles. It was the Ivy League touch...
...town of Bergerane. One hot Sun day he is lying on the bank of the Rhone River, his young fiancée asleep in his arms. Brilliantly successful at 30, he is a stiff and formal fellow who would feel embarrassed just to be caught in public with his jacket off. A young girl, evidently injured in a fall from her bike, comes limping down to the river's edge. When the girl stumbles and falls into a whirl pool, all of Jean Berthier's character flaws jump into action at once. He is afraid of waking...
This time John Davison Rockefeller Jr. did not have to wait. He doffed his topcoat, jacket and vest, hung them on a hook on the wall facing the mirrors and four chairs, shouldered into a sweater held out by his chauffeur and sat down in Jim Corbett's chair. "Would you please close the door?" he asked. Rockefeller, who will be 83 years old next January, is troubled by drafts. He leaned back in the chair, a smock draped about his stocky frame, for the usual haircut and shampoo. Then he began to ply the barber with questions...
...thinning white hair trimmed, shampooed and carefully dried, Rockefeller handed Corbett $5 for the $2.50 job, donned his vest, jacket and topcoat and headed off to the next point on his morning's itinerary. "Goodbye, Mr. Rockefeller,"said the barber. "Goodbye, Mr. Corbett," said the man who is known to his friends and associates (but not to his face) as J.D.R...
...first time when he joined Lone Star Primitive Baptist Church.* The conversion took place in a white frame church, after a Sunday sermon, when Elder Henry Greer Ball, a grocer on weekdays, asked if anyone present would like to accept Jesus Christ. Up stepped Sam, taking off tie, jacket and shoes. Then, wearing socks, trousers and white shirt, the Speaker of the House was completely immersed for a moment in a portable baptistry before he emerged dripping to hear himself baptized "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost," and to hear the congregation of about...