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Rolling through the viridian Kentish countryside, there is time for a leisurely lunch, a free, staunchly English repast designed perhaps to fortify tender turns against the Gallic frivolities to follow. At Folkestone, passengers board a reserved veranda deck on the Sealink cross-channel ferry. In 90 minutes passengers are ashore at the great French port of Boulogne...
Along with Lacoste alligators and chino trousers, Sperry Top-Sider shoes have come to epitomize the popular preppie look. Invented in the 1930s by a Connecticut yachtsman to help sailors keep their footing on slick decks, the white-soled, dark brown deck shoes have become a favorite with landlubbers from Newport, R.I., to Newport, Calif., who wear them more for status than for safety...
...bomb pulverized the bandstand. It was 12:55. Said one of the 150 or so people who were attending the lunchtime concert: "Everything seemed to come up from the bottom of the bandstand and blow right into the air-bodies, instruments, everything. There were mangled bodies all over the deck chairs." The toll of the two grisly incidents: ten soldiers killed; 32 soldiers, two policemen and 21 civilians injured...
...Titanic came together in a Philadelphia hotel to observe the 70th anniversary of the sinking. They fetched out their memories of that night and passed them around like photographs. They gazed at a few forlorn relics of the voyage: Mrs. John Jacob Astor's life jacket, a battered deck chair, other odds and ends from the unsinkable "Floating Palace" before it went down...
...London house, a couple strip naked and proceed to make love while Tom and Nick debate the merits of Tom's marriage to Baba. In the last act, Tom may win back his soul by guessing three cards Nick has plucked from a deck. As a pair of black men saunter by, Tom correctly names the two of spades...