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...Tokyo last week Mrs. Fujiko Homma, wife of Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, knew that she would soon be a widow. She had fought with quiet tenacity to save the General's life, had broken an ancient Japanese custom-according to which wives should be seen, not heard-by appearing in court and giving a newspaper interview in her husband's defense. With the submissive dignity of a Japanese lady, she related that she was his second wife, that she had borne him two children -a girl, now 18, and a boy now 16, both now attending school...
...April 26, 1698, Peter I called the leading Russians to his country place, Preobrazhenskoye, and told them they had to conform to Western custom by shaving off their beards. With his own hand Peter gave his noblemen's whiskers a rough...
...away from him for mimeographing. The old man chatted with Harry Truman, showed off his knowledge of American history, made a creditable stab at reciting from memory Whittier's Barbara Frietchie: "Up from the meadows rich with corn, clear in the cool September morn. . . ." According to his custom, before dinner he rapidly downed five Scotch highballs...
Monday the Cardinal's body lay in state in All Hallows College, his old seminary. This week it will be flown to St. Louis for burial in the crypt he had built for himself in All Souls' Chapel of his great cathedral, where, as custom decrees, his red hat will hang until it rots...
...many a self-made man, he is pleased with his new-won splendor. He accepts Hollywood's lavish attention as a matter of course; surveys his Hollywood home and his Manhattan apartment, richly decorated in antiques and colonial furniture, with a satisfied eye. He seldom slips into his custom-made, monogrammed shirts, or expensive, tailor-made suits, without the triumphant recollection that once he was a kid from Brooklyn...