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Twenty-four hours late, the liner Oropesa dropped anchor in Hamilton harbor. Wearing grey flannel suits, which Edward of Wales topped with a startling broadbrimmed "wideawake" hat, the two Princes stepped ashore, posed for photographs, shook hands with Acting Governor Edward W. Evans and his staff, then boarded a tender and putt-putted to the swanky Mid-Ocean Club at Tuckerstown. The Earl of Chester celebrated the beginning of his trade tour by playing golf with Bermuda's leading tradesman, Eldon Trimingham of Trimingham Bros. (clothing store), famed yachtsman and Bermudian socialite. It was a close match...
Judges in Flannel, Prisoners in Starch. White as when they looked down upon the Tsarist Court, the huge pillars of the "Hall of Columns" stood last week like a double row of sentinels guarding the Red Court. The vast oblong hall was draped and festooned in Red. At a Red desk on the right of the Supreme Court Bench sat Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. dreaded prosecutor, famed for his sneer. He seemed a bit plumper but no less tense and tigerish than at the famed Schakhta Trial two years ago when he sent five counter-revolutionaries to Death (TIME. July...
...Judges, most of the male spectators, were in workmen's flannel shirts. Only the prisoners wore "bourgeois clothes," dark business suits, starched collars and neat ties-the costume most calculated to prejudice Court and spectators against them...
Paderewski, nearing 70, arrived look-ing tired and thin after his recent illness. He was accompanied by lank Ernest Schelling, a neighbor of his at Morges on Lake Geneva. He wore the characteristic Paderewski dress: ill-fitting overcoat, slouch hat, black sack suit, white waistcoat, low flannel collar, high button boots. A delegation of Polish war veterans met him at the pier. Newspapers reviewed his political past; emblazoned his most casual utterances. On Oct. 21 in Syracuse, Paderewski begins a nationwide tour of 72 concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take...
...suntanned man-Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick-walked with authoritative curiosity through the church nave and accessory rooms. A small group attended him on this his first inspection of the church since his regular summer vacation on Mouse Island in Boothbay Harbor, Me., "where a man can put on a flannel shirt in the morning and go to bed in it at night if he feels like it." The church, he saw quickly, would be spick & span enough for his first sermon service therein...