Word: coats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a whirlwind of paperwork, Ike flew with Mamie to Augusta at week's end, where-between alternate engagements at the links and in his office-he munched (in the Kelly green coat of the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club) crackers from the "Eisenhower Cracker Barrel," a pine-wooded whimsical memento contributed by Treasury ex-Secretary George Humphrey. Rising to the folksiness of the occasion, Ike said between munches, "There'll be no trouble from here on out for the world...
...pleasant tuning-up hum of the Philharmonia Orchestra faded away and a hush fell over London's Royal Festival Hall. A tall, slightly stooped figure in a frock coat emerged from behind a yellow curtain. Feet dragging, he made his way to the podium with the help of a heavy walking stick. As the applause thundered down, the man's solemn, craggy face remained expressionless and unseeing as a blind man's. Otto Klemperer, 72, painfully mounted the podium, planted his feet firmly apart, and gave the downbeat for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
President George R. Farnum, LL.B., LL.M., Litt.D., is a modest man in his late fifties. He wore a gray, double-breasted suit and top coat and blue knit tie, with horn-rimmed glasses and a black scarf. He arrived in a rush, and delivered an interview standing in the center of the room, pausing in his remarks only for a sporadic swipe at the glasses with a white handkerchief...
Mamie's beaver coat was merely another of the thousands of gadgets, gimcracks and articles pressed on Presidents and their wives by well-meaning U.S. groups. (Ike once got a readymade flower bed.) The chief complaint, if beaver does come back, may come from U.S. husbands who have hocked themselves for mink...
...Haverhill, Mass. had shrugged off the motion picture as a flickering freak. Then an enterprising young (22) junkman named Louis Burt Mayer came to town and laid out $600 as a down payment on a onetime burlesque house. Mayer hid the shoddy past of his theater with a coat of white paint, installed an organ, and dug up a religious film called From the Manger to the Cross. His opening was a socko success. The lines of ticket buyers taught L. B. Mayer a lesson he never forgot: Americans want simple, clean entertainment...