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...career: the Sophie Tucker Golden Jubilee Testimonial. Driving up to the front door in a gilded 1903 Ford and rolling-into the Grand Ballroom like a great float (a 24-carat cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with $165,000 for theatrical charities. It was really Sophie's 49th year in show business, but, as she happily explained in her rain-barrel bass: "Honey...
...Marathon. Eight years later, smartly turned out in his favorite civilian attire-the morning coat and striped pants of the Western diplomat-he stood before the Turkish National Assembly (which he created), in the capital at Ankara (which he created), and for six full days told in the Turkish language (which he purified and revised) the full story of what he had done. He began...
...choice of three books as a background was not an inspiration, however, but a last resort. john Harvard's family had no coat of arms, so it was impossible to follow the Oxford custom of adopting a benefactor's shield. Instead, the Overseers patterned the design after those of the colleges of Trinity and the Sorbonne, which both used books as a part of their arms...
...museum's name plate is a reproduction of Russell's neat signature. In the lobby of the modern brick building is a wall-sized photograph of the artist at work, looking uncomfortable in a suit coat and starched collar. Beyond is a gallery 40 feet long, for 135 of Russell's best paintings and sculptures from his earliest period up to his death in 1926: strictly realistic images of dust-churning buffalo herds and galloping Indian braves, rearing horses, squaws and cow pokes...
...fell dead to the ground." Whereupon Smith cut off the fellow's head and presented it to the Hungarian commander, "who kindly accepted it." Smith says he made the same disposition of two other Turks who sallied out to avenge their chief, and in consequence got a coat of arms from the Prince of Hungary-and Author Smith, on the evidence, is inclined to believe...