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...show." But the 70-odd correspondents with her paid no heed. Whether she wore a Cassini evening dress or a Tassell gown-all duly recorded by reporters-Jackie shone even among the colorful saris of the Indian women around her. When she slipped off her shoes and put on violet velvet slippers to visit the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech was quick to peek inside the shoes, triumphantly cabled home: "I can state with absolute authority that she wears 10A and not 10AA." So clothes-conscious were the newsmen that they even asked U.S. Ambassador...
When Isherwood's next important book appeared in 1945-it was Prater Violet, a short satirical novel about film-making in London-it did nothing to damage its author's reputation but also did little to fulfill his promise. An unsuccessful novel called The World in the Evening followed in 1954. But the elegant dactyls remained on the literary scene. Their possessor had moved to Southern California in 1939. There he taught, wrote film scripts that seldom saw celluloid, and set aside left-wing politics to dabble in Vedanta-living, as Alfred Kazin once remarked acidly...
...cold spring: the violet was flawed on the lawn...
...deep purple. He defended Walter Wanger after the jealous producer fired a -38-cal. slug into the groin of a fellow whom he considered too attentive to his wife, Joan Bennett. Giesler decided this was temporary insanity. "For a brief mo ment," he told the jury, "through the violet haze of early evening, Wanger saw things in a bluish flash." The jury some how saw it that way, too, convicting him of a minor charge, and Wanger ended up with a short prison term...
Even so, Romagna's nimble pen-a needlepoint Sheaffer Snorkel that writes in violet ink-followed Kennedy's long-distance dash with a fidelity that both the White House and the White House press corps have come to trust. When Kennedy went down to Latin America last week with a batch of speech texts in hand, Romagna went along too; he accurately transcribed not only the slightest presidential departure from the script, but Kennedy's impromptu remarks at public receptions along the route. "Keeping the press happy is my prime objective," says Romagna. "Keeping the official file...