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Show business has given him a theatrical sense. Pie maintains the "little man" legend by wearing army pants and brown leather flyer's jacket, on the back of which is a faded pin-up girl portrait...
...shuffled into Manhattan's Hook & Ladder Co. No. 3 on Christmas night did not look much like a philanthropist. His shoes were broken, his pants were frayed, he wore only winter underwear under his pea jacket. But the firemen knew him well as a man of good will and charity...
...smell of burnt thatch and straw (set ablaze by mortar shells) hung pungently over all. Its cottages were roofless, blackened earthen walls, through which children and women poked forlornly. On a slope in front of the ruins sat Fang Hu-shih, a wrinkled grandmother bundled in a black padded jacket and trousers. Her silver earrings danced back & forth as she rocked in silent grief. Yesterday at the height of the fighting she had hobbled on her tiny bound feet a mile away to a safe spot in the fields. Behind her now lay the ashes of her hut and strawrick...
After that came prayers and reading; then breakfast alone and the day's work. When he had military visitors, he donned his plain, unmedaled khaki uniform; otherwise he wore a dark blue mandarin gown with a black jacket. To save coal, the grate in his study was left unlit most days, and the Gimo wore a skullcap to keep his head warm...
Democracy. In Pittsburgh, Ollie Ziegler reported to police that one of the men who held him up was dressed in overalls, the other in a dinner jacket...