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Bess Truman had grown used to the lurking Secret Service men, the brass and braid and cutaways and gowns, the flashbulbs, limousines, interviews and stares. Benefits, teas, parties, receptions, christenings, and the daily quick changes from short skirts to long were now routine. She was booked solid through April, and looking forward...
...five cardinals-designate had been outfitted in hand-me-downs. Because Vatican tailors, faced with Italy's shortage of silks and gold braid, could outfit only twelve of the 32 new cardinals completely the American archbishops and Bishop Tien drew on the wardrobes of the late Cardinals Mundelein, O'Connell anc Hayes. But the Pope would provide the red hats-a personal gift-as well as the topaz rings that are the badge of office...
...only advantages of regimentation . . . are in the offices of the gold braid. . . . Ask an enlisted WAVE who has a college degree from Wellesley what she thinks...
...Gold braid has seen a dirty room
...strain of God Save the King. From the distance came the deep booms of a 19-gun salute. The Earl, plainly enjoying this time-honored parliamentary pageantry, smiled, then turned and warmly shook the hand of Canada's chunky, frock-coated Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. A braid-heavy honor guard escorted the Earl and the Princess inside...