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White House Press Secretary James Hagerty was in a first-floor office chatting with Presidential Physician Howard McC. Snyder one morning last week when Dwight Eisenhower entered, dressed in tan slacks, a brown-checkered sports coat and brown loafers. "You going to your office?" asked Hagerty. Replied the President: "Yeah, sure...
...bitter. I used to like to here, but it's just been too long." Vag picked up his coat and started for the stairs...
Does Noyes put on his coat when he goes from the living room to his bedroom? New Caanan weather gets mighty cold during the winter...
...moved to the block one day last week at Sotheby & Co., London auctioneers, the atmosphere became electric. Lot 40 consisted of two small (18 in. by 13 in.) heraldic glass panels. Dated 1588, they bore on the left the coat of arms (three red mullets and red and white bars) of John Washington, George Washington's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Probably made for John's grandson Robert, the panels had stayed in the Washington 16th century Sulgrave Manor for almost 300 years, but recently turned up as kitchen windows in the Northamptonshire home of Litt...
...panels had appeal for curators in both Britain and the U.S. Britons felt that they should go back to Sulgrave; Americans, mindful of the legend that Betsy Ross got the design for the American flag from the stars and stripes of the coat of arms, thought they should be brought to the U.S. With no rich American contingent in sight, the bidding opened at ?500, moved to ?1,000 before a young London dealer named Derek Cecil Davis began to bid. By the time the bidding reached ?2,500, it was between Davis and a dealer named Robert Jack...