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...Always he carries a pocketful of 25? pieces which he hands out to Kansas City bums who are useful on Election Day. Rich and full of honors, he lives in a fashionable $100,000 mansion which burglars once robbed of $150,000 worth of loot including 480 pairs of silk stockings from his daughter Marceline's trousseau. Again & again he says: "I'm just an ordinary fellow who was able to keep his word...
...Majesty's representative, the governor general of the Irish Free State, sat reading the papers in his suburban cottage outside Dublin. At the U. S. legation Minister William Wallace McDowell buckled on a very clean collar, put a silk hat on his head, took up his papers and went forth to present his credentials from President Roosevelt to George V. The two men never met. Governor General Buckley continued to read the papers while Minister McDowell rode behind a clattering cavalry escort to present himself to scrawny President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State...
Last month Harvard Professor Elliott Carr Cutler, 1909 Class Marshal, remembered his pleasant post-graduate visit with "Putzy's" family in Munich. To the reunion invitation Professor Cutler added a personal note asking "Putzy" to be an aide and wear a silk hat and a frock coat again at Cambridge in June. In Berlin last week, invitation in hand, exuberant, psychic Herr Hanfstaengl bubbled: "I am looking forward to the reunion with the greatest anticipation. I may even, as a surprise, take with me my film, Hans Westmar [TIME, Dec. 25]. That film can show better than any words...
Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) was a pioneer Suffragist, called by Susan B. Anthony "The soundest constitutional lawyer in the country.'' She stormed the Senate Judiciary Committee, resolute in black silk, and in 1888 assembled in Washington the first international convention of women...
...such smart Roman hotels as the Excelsior and the De Russie guests stared last week as fellow-guests, garbed in black silk mantles with white crosses and long black stoles, marched and countermarched through the lobbies. They were Knights of Malta, gathered together from all over the world in their first general meeting since 1788, to pay their respects to the Pope, Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emanuel, and to make pilgrimages to Rome's four great basilicas in honor of the Holy Year which ends Easter Monday...