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...night before Field Marshal Montgomery left, the love feast was climaxed by a Kremlin banquet at which Stalin himself kept filling the teetotaling visitor's glass for repeated toasts. Just before the banquet, Monty had been given a caracul cap to replace his famed black beret, and a long grey dress overcoat of a Soviet marshal-reportedly lined with $8,000 worth of sables-to replace the dramatic white sheepskin he had worn to Moscow...
...lining in Monty's new coat seemed to be merely "brown fur." Said the gallant Monty: "Anyhow, it's a beautiful coat." Wearing it and his caracul cap, taking his white coat with him, he boarded the plane. When he landed in England, he had on his beret...
Andre Laguerre of our Paris bureau reported the incident of the small Frenchman in a big beret who drove up to the Luxembourg Palace, where some 1.200 delegates have been trying to write the peace, prepared to do business with the authorities in charge. He parked his car, which was equipped with a padlocked trailer loaded with intricate contraptions, and sent in his card to the secretariat. He was given an immediate audience...
Crestfallen, the little man in the big beret made for the exit. As he reached the door, the official shouted after him: "One thing more. If there are any fleas here, they must have been brought by delegates...
...Serge Koussevitzky was in his favorite summer pasture last week, and frisky as a yearling. His costume-grey flannel trousers, blue flannel jacket, white wool beret and white shoes-made him look like a jaunty boulevardier at the beach. Visitors to Tanglewood, Dr. Koussevitzky's music colony near Lenox, Mass., try to compliment the maestro by calling it "an American Salzburg...