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...blazing hot day in July 1861, a little bespectacled man with a Vandyke beard, a big nose, and wearing a white linen duster and a straw hat, hurried across the Long Bridge at Washington, D.C. on to the territory of a newly proclaimed nation, the Confederate States of America. He joined the crush of junketing Congressmen, society ladies in carriages and pleasure seekers who had jaunted out to see the Union Army trounce General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's Confederates at Bull Run. The little man in the linen duster was Mathew Brady, a popular portrait photographer of Washington...
...merchant navy's "Red Duster," Cana-dianized after Confederation by superimposing the Dominion coat of arms on the fly (outer end of the flag), and Canada's unofficial flag...
Then darkness closed in. The pilots of General Quesada's "Hell Hawks" and "Panzer Duster" groups had counted 126 enemy tanks, armored vehicles and trucks destroyed, 34 more damaged. The U.S. loss had been one plane. The pilots itched for more such good hunting. But next day the fog was so bad they could not even take...
High point of the show is the ten or 15 minutes that Breneman spends trying on the audience's hats, which he refers to as "this molting feather duster" or "something special in the way of a potholder." Some women now deliberately show up with their most eccentric headgear, sit waiting for Breneman's onslaught...
Leverett House, with 14 points, just squeezed through by a one point margin over Kirkland, Dudley coming in third with 11. Eliot had 10, Duster 8, Lowell 5, Adams 3, and Winthrop wound up without a single point...