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...Ambassador to Russia and next Ambassador to the U.S. stepped up to the speaker's stand. First he tried to pour himself a drink, but the cap on the bottle stuck. Next he asked for a reading lamp. It was brought, minus a shade. Sir Archibald borrowed a beret from an officer in the first row and placed it jauntily over the light. Then he began...
...special envoy hurried away, the speaker's lamp started burning a hole through the lampshade beret...
Monty let them sit, another ten minutes, while he dressed for the occasion. He donned a freshly pressed battle jacket, with the marshal's baton woven on the shoulder tabs. A tiny gold watch chain stretched from pocket to pocket, under his decoration ribbons. The familiar black beret was at the usual jaunty angle. Monty strolled slowly to the tent where the Germans waited. As he passed the assembled war correspondents he said softly: "This is a very big moment...
Died. Alexey Nicholayevich Tolstoy, 62, long-haired, beret-wearing, best-selling Russian writer (Peter the Great, Darkness and Dawn), remote kinsman of the late great Leo Tolstoy; from a lung ailment; in Moscow. A Tsarist count, he renounced his title to become the Soviet's most enthusiastic propagandist and richest citizen (estimated fortune...
...Alexis Carrel, 71, French master surgeon and scientific philosopher (Man the Unknown), 1912 Nobel Prize winner for suturing blood vessels and transplanting living organs, collaborator with Charles Lindbergh on the "mechanical heart''; of prolonged heart trouble; in France. Son of a Lyons silk merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious gourmet...