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...show at the Copacabana that night? The regular star, Billy Daniels, had been accused of shooting somebody in a saloon row, and couldn't get sprung in time. "When I got to the club, they didn't want to let me in. I had on a leather jacket and black wool slacks. I looked like a motorcycle kid. I had eight minutes to dress and get on the floor. It wasn't until I'd finished that I realized what had happened. Then I started to shake, and I passed out and started to cry." Last...
...banquet during the Suez conference in London (see FOREIGN NEWS), square-cut Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov turned up in a brand-new dinner jacket, set fellow diplomats and male fashion authorities to buzzing. A spokesman for Britain's dictatorial but often waggish Tailor and Cutter magazine ripped into Shepilov's ensemble with a piece-by-piece analysis. Of the pre-tied, hook-on bow tie: "If you don't have a valet to tie your tie, which regrettably many people don't, then you should tie it up yourself.'' Of the hang...
Legs Crossed, Jackets Buttoned. Network rivalry hit a new peak. CBS posted a sign for its staffers: "Under no circumstances are you to patronize the NBC cafeteria." TV Reporter Vince Garrity caused an outraged flurry by flaunting ABC lapel pins in range of rival cameras. NBC went so far as to hire a professional lip reader to try to catch out-of-reach conversation, and ABC issued instructions to its staff: "Be sure when you are on camera, that you sit up straight, have your legs crossed modestly, and your jacket buttoned...
...CAPITOL OFFENSE, by Jocelyn Davey (253 pp.; Knopf; $3), is set in and around the British embassy in Washington. The dust jacket accurately describes it as "an entertainment." There are a couple of murders, but in the main the book is a witty, lighthearted spoof of the diplomatic set-including the Americans, the French, the South Americans, the Russians and, of course, the British, who are able to spoof themselves more tellingly than anyone else...
...trees by day, sleeps in one of Peter's empty graves by night, leaving him tiny scraps of messages ("They've killed them all, Peter, killed them all! What is loneliness?"). The last message Peter finds in the grave is not worded: it is a black jacket with a pocketful of acorns, and its owner is gone-to death or madness. Peter knows...