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...special kind. For years he wore plus-fours (until a doctor told him they were bad for his circulation), but he kept his silk shirts with their flowing sleeves. To compensate for his balding dome, he wore his hair long in back. In winter he crammed it inside a beret; in summer he used a hairnet...
Three mornings a week he leaves his home in Syracuse, N.Y. to teach at Syracuse University. The rest of the time he pads about in beret and white smock, puffing king-sized cigarettes and working furiously at a whole array of statues. For the University of Vienna, Mestrovic is modeling a portrait bust in plaster of the famed Croatian scholar, Vatroslav Jagic (1838-1923); he has just shipped off a 6-ft. bronze of St. Anthony for Oxford University; and he is working on a full-scale model of a statue as a gift for the people of his homeland...
When the Nazis occupied Rome in 1943, an elderly man slipped quietly into the city's artists' quarter and took over an empty studio. He wore the artist's standard beret and velvet jacket, filled his room with paints, brushes, canvas and easel. But the man was no artist. He was Guglielmo Emanuel, Rome correspondent of Milan's Corriere della Sera, and one of Italy's most renowned anti-fascist journalists. For years he had been in trouble with Mussolini's police; now with the Germans in power, they were looking for him again...
...France's Jean Boiteux, who beat out Ford Konno in the 400-meter free-style swimming final, setting an Olympic record of 4 min. 30.7 sec. and inspiring his excited father to plunge for joy, beret and all, into the pool...
...Worker sent Chambers to cover a textile workers' demonstration in Passaic, N.J. The police were massed in force to keep the strikers from marching, but a slender girl rushed out before the cops could stop her. The demonstration surged after her. "Get that bitch in the brown beret!" a policeman shouted. Without flinching, she walked forward as the cops closed in, swinging their clubs. Led by the "bitch in the brown beret," the demonstrators swept right through the police. This was Chambers' first glimpse of Esther Shemitz, who since 1931 has been his wife...