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...peaceful holiday. Sample snide caption (in Rome's Il Tempo): "Togliatti is caught by the photographer while he risks a few steps in the open." But it had its greatest fun with Togliatti's natty Alpine wear. To give the final dash to his fancy sport shirt, cardigan and chic knickerbockers, Togliatti sported a daring pair of patrician Argyle stockings. Hooted Rome's weekly Il Borghese: "They are stockings from the window of Old England [a posh Roman haberdashery]. By wearing them, Togliatti has definitely thrown overboard the 'poor man' tradition of Italian social-Communism...
...aging, alcoholic Matinee Idol Bing Crosby. She slouches around with her glowing hair gone dull, her glasses stuck on top of her head, her underlip sullen, resentment in the very sag of her shoulders and the dangle of her arms. She looks dreadful. Said Seaton: "You know that old cardigan sweater she wears? Well, a lot of actresses would say, 'Well, why don't we just put a few rhinestones here? I want to look dowdy, of course, but this woman has taste . . .' and before you know it, she'd look like a million dollars...
...moment they stared at each other, the Russians utterly astonished by the sudden apparition of this solitary horseman, gorgeous and glittering with gold." Then, "one of the officers. Prince Radzivil, recognized Lord Cardigan-they had met in London at dinners and balls-and . . . detached a troop of Cossacks . . . to capture him alive." Lord Cardigan was in no mood to be mauled by private soldiers. Wheeling his horse, he galloped back the way he had come. Back at base, he "immediately broke into accusations of ... Nolan's insubordination...
...Isolated Position. The valor of the Light Brigade went unnoticed by Lord Cardigan, who returned to his yacht, had a light supper and some champagne and went to bed. All he admitted later was "some apprehension that for a general his isolated position was unusual." Not once had he noticed the valley, strewn with dead and dying. Some 700 horsemen made the charge; only 195 came back...
Brave, stupid Lord Cardigan is remembered nowadays only by the button-up woolen sweater he wore in the Crimea...