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...flatteringly but fairly describes him as "the best-dressed stout man I know-above conservative, not afraid to look well-dressed." Gleason orders about a dozen suits a year, paying as little as $285 for a little grey nothing, sometimes going exotic with such items as a cashmere trench coat or pink slacks. He once gave his tailor a single $7,500 order. He is 47 in. at the bulge, but it sometimes swells to 51 in., and he has to keep a triple wardrobe. Each "medium weight'' Gleason suit (designed to cover approximately 250 Ibs., his present...
Little boys are not much good at keeping things from their mothers. Sure enough, after his mother questioned him, Tomas told her the truth. She put on her coat and marched him to the store and made him return the quarter. The grocer said, "Here-let him keep...
...where Governor Luis Mufioz Marin had given schoolchildren the day off and issued a proclamation calling on all citizens to "celebrate with joy." Lining the observation decks at San Juan airport, a flag-waving crowd of 5,000 roared as the President, followed by Jackie in a white wool coat, stepped from the plane,, "Puerto Rico," he said into the inevitable microphones, "serves as an admirable bridge between Latin America and North America. You have served to make it easier for us to understand each other." Along the ten-mile route into San Juan, 200,000 lined the streets...
Faced by strong accusations against his client last night, the legal counsel for Grove Press took off his coat, stood up before a large audience, and dramatically declared, "If the Tropic of Cancer offends people, they don't have to read...
While pals from his Soho past gleefully designed him a coat of arms showing a camera over a unicorn, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, unabashedly unpacked the tools of his old trade to take the first pictures of Princess Margaret with their 2½-week-old son, David Albert Charles, Viscount Linley.*The results were acclaimed as "superb" by fastidious Royal Photographer Cecil Beaton and must have been equally gratifying to Retired Photographer Armstrong-Jones, who, peddling his shots at up to $9 a print, was taking home his first earnings in 18 months of royal matrimony...