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...rally in Wall Street a lunch-hour crowd ignored the New Deal speakers (ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, ex-Ambassador to Norway Mrs. J. Borden Harriman) to gape at a 1944 campaign hat designed by Sally Victor, the topical milliner. The hat, "The Commander in Chief," is a light blue beret with a red-white-&-blue cockade and ribbon, to sell for "about...
Morning came and the Commando-men splashed ashore, each carrying his 60-lb. pack and wearing a green beret (they scorn the steel helmet as a needlessly heavy encumbrance). They skirted beach mines, passed pillboxes, dodged gunfire, and started the long, tough fight inland...
...great country estate, St. Clere, in Kent (now a nursery), he was always known as Captain. One of his tenants thought he could always tell whether the financial news was good or bad according to whether Norman sported a red or blue beret. His devotion to the Bank was fanatical. Looking out over his garden, Norman once said: "I wish they would let me stay here." Said an old servant: "Surely you can if you wish." Replied Norman: "No, it is impossible" - and left at once for the Bank...
Everybody recognized the worn brown face beneath the worn black beret. As usual, there were a few discreet cheers. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery was paying a filial visit to his father's old college, Cambridge's famed Trinity. His father, Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, had made a great name at Trinity as an athlete; he had been a militant Christian who became an athletic Bishop; at 70, bald, snow-bearded and retired, he still walked his 18 miles a day. Standing before the Tudor Gothic dining hall on one side of Nevile's Court, the General pointed...
Dark, undapper Frederick Robert Kuh (pronounced coo) last week could stick another large feather in his old beret. As he pedaled his creaky bicycle down to London's Whitehall he could expand his slight chest over the almost unanimous judgment of his colleagues: Freddie Kuh is the best U.S. foreign correspondent...