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...James's Beat. An Ambassador is a glorified reporter, a legman in a tailcoat. His main job is to interview people, get news, report accurately. To do this he must 1) have the confidence of the people he represents, 2) win the confidence of the people he is assigned...
...personal friends" at the Royal Derby Night Ball. Among the guests were Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. & Mrs. Kennedy, Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. The King and othermale guests wore the court dress of tailcoat and knee breeches. Lone holdout was Ambassador Kennedy, who stuck to his long trousers...
...portrait of Massachusetts' Supreme Court Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, looking like a disheveled bulldog in a white stock and rumpled tailcoat, taken around...
Even more incredible than this story, however, is the portrait of the Scarlet Pimpernel as a boy of eleven years old, "from a contemporary silver point drawing." With an air of the greatest insouciance young Percy stands in his tailcoat, ruff, and knee breeches, his left hand daintily grasping the well known handkerchief, his right elevating some sort of lorgnette or bauble which is not clearly distinguishable, and looking for all the world exactly as he did at twenty and at thirty and at forty...
...means a Bolshevik, Mr. Morrison always turns up at Council meetings in an impeccably pressed tailcoat. He has been called "precise, businesslike, even stodgy, the perfect administrator." On taking office he found in his lap a nest egg of ?2,000,000, salted away in London County Council's treasury by Conservatives. Last week Perfect Administrator Morrison, having run through his nest egg, made London householders wince by taking steps to raise their rates (taxes) to the extortionate percentage of seven shillings in the pound (31%). Said "Next Prime Minister"* Morrison: "The money has gone in treating...