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...afternoon session, Christmas Day, brought a simple, stirring final ceremony. Two men, representing the Assembly and the Government, came on the stage under Sun Yat-sen's huge portrait. One was old Wu Chih-hui, dean of the delegates, in satin jacket, skirt and slippers. The other was Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in white gloves and military khaki. An Army band played the national anthem. The crowded Assembly bowed three times before Sun's likeness; Wu mumbled Sun's will. Then from the chairman's aged hand the Gimo received the Constitution, bound in red and gold...
...million dollars, a distinguished white mustache, a list of 40 miscellaneous clubs and societies (including the Bankers Club, National Association for the Protection of Roadside Beauty), and a bagful of curious ideas which he will dispense upon request. Last September, Davis, attired in a yachting cap, double-breasted blue jacket with a saucer-sized gold highway badge pinned on the inside, astounded his guests with the simple announcement: "You're looking at the next President of the United States." Later he disclosed that "I have the perfect defense against the atomic bomb...
...weeks, then fled to Vienna, where he announced his resignation. While Austria's Communists seized the incident to accuse the Government of "abandoning" its emissaries, Braunias held on in Moscow. To keep going, said his wife tearfully in Vienna, he was selling his very clothes, now a jacket, now a pair of trousers...
...TIME, Nov. 25). It was only a $5,000 affair of 140 diamonds and seven emeralds, but she loved it, and to the woman who had found it on the opera-house floor Mrs. Kavanaugh gave $250. While reporters and photographers watched closely, the loser, in a Norwegian fox jacket and pearls, and the finder, in something modest in black, made the trade. The finder, who used to be a cook, guessed she would buy a new coat and a few other things...
When it was all over, agency men could only weakly mumble that Gimbels is not completely blameless either. Latest sample of Gimbels' "overexcited, overeager, overhappy" copy: "Nothing but sweet-as-Pètit-Suisse dreams could come of time spent in a gown and jacket like this. Princess Pat's rayon sheer gown is diaphanous as wisps of clouds floating over a pale June moon...