Word: coats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Attorney General and as ace political troubleshooter for the New Frontier, Robert Francis Kennedy, 35, has been far more conspicuous for his tough mind, razored tongue and tireless energies than for his diplomatic techniques. Yet last week Bobby turned up in morning coat in the Ivory Coast Republic on Africa's western bulge-and scored a nice diplomatic success...
...days of ceremonial dancing and feasting in Abidjan, where a brand-new presidential palace gleamed in marble glory above cool fountains and wide terraces. There, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, made some sort of diplomatic fashion history by appearing in cutaway coat and green polka-dot bow tie. There, too, Bobby announced the U.S. gift to Houphouet-Boigny of a beige, two-engined Aero Commander plane. (The Ivory Coast's President is scared of flying, but he appreciated the sentiment.) Bobby, Ethel and their entourage watched bare-breasted girls performing a "Dance...
Whether this wide and strange office will ever fit into the American pattern of compartmentalized efficiency remains to be seen. The incumbent, New York-born Alfred Rinaldi, a veteran tourist guide, is nervous as he puts on his frock coat with the traditional crossed keys and takes up his position behind the desk. Says he defiantly: "I will try to get to the bottom of any trouble there...
...these two portraits I proceeded to create this being. He was an active man. Every morning he would go out, make three paintings, afterwards working on them a little at home. Except for his paintbox and easel, he looked like a peasant of the south of France, in corduroy coat and trousers. But enlarged in the statue, this corduroy looks like the bark of a tree. It looks like the texture he used in his Arles paintings, the great big scratches in his corn and wheatfields. Everything about him is so strikingly interesting. I did it with enormous enthusiasm...
When McCall's shook up its editorial staff, put on a thick, new coat of makeup and launched a hair-pulling drive to the top of the women's magazine field 2½ years ago, the rival Ladies' Home Journal reacted as any proper Philadelphia dowager would. The Journal, tops in the field for two decades, publicly treated this lipsticked hussy with icy silence, confined its comments to catty asides. "It's fun to be challenged,'' said Editors Bruce and Beatrice Blackmar Gould, faintly amused. Their amusement turned to dismay as McCall...