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...Republican Party affair), but rain and fog kept him grounded. Instead, he rode in a special train (paid for by the G.O.P.). Missing out on the $100 banquet fare (turtle soup, filet mignon, ice cream, New York State champagne), he dined on the train, then changed into his dinner jacket to face the microphones...
...colored paper. The winning float was a 12-ft., papier-mache Statue of Liberty with a flask of plasma in her right hand and a sheaf of bonds under her left arm. One student marcher confessed that his crim son Cossack coat was really a girl's bed jacket, and one of his medals was a high-school prize for oratory...
When the Nazis occupied Rome in 1943, an elderly man slipped quietly into the city's artists' quarter and took over an empty studio. He wore the artist's standard beret and velvet jacket, filled his room with paints, brushes, canvas and easel. But the man was no artist. He was Guglielmo Emanuel, Rome correspondent of Milan's Corriere della Sera, and one of Italy's most renowned anti-fascist journalists. For years he had been in trouble with Mussolini's police; now with the Germans in power, they were looking for him again...
...save for a few absurdities, Spring and Summer fashions would escape the malediction hurled by the fellow who himself wore flowing green silk neckties, a green velvet jacket and knee-breeches, and who strolled around London with "a flower or a lily clutched in his medieval hand...
...opening of the Sixth International Film Festival in Cannes, France, the order was "evening dress." The one exception made: Artist Pablo Picasso, who came in a brown velvet jacket with a fleece-lined leather lumber-jacket draped over his shoulder. Among the crowd, photographers caught the sometime rebel Boy Wonder Orson Welles, in stylish-stout conformity, dancing ogle-eyed with Cinemactress Anne Baxter...