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...your issue of Feb. 11, I noticed you referring to the Prince of Wales wearing a "red" carnation when in evening dress. You called it a "joke" but it merely showed that the Prince "knows his flowers" and you don't. A red carnation is the proper flower for evening wear...
...ever wear a flower in your buttonhole? Or do you think a fellow who wears one a sissy? If you do, you are wrong. The man who wants to wear one and does is more of a man than the man who wants to wear one but doesn...
...wouldn't want to wear a flower!-and any man can who wishes to; that is, any man who is sure of himself. . . . PAUL T. OSTERBY II ("Osterby the Florist") Stamford, Conn...
...token of the 250-year Byrd tradition, as precious as her wedding ring. It is a ring of old white gold set with diamonds. Two hundred years ago it belonged to Evelyn Byrd, "the fairest flower" of Colonial Virginia, who, when she was presented at the Court of St. James's, met the gallant Earl of Peterborough. They fell in love and became engaged to be married. But when Evelyn Byrd returned to Virginia, her father flew into a rage. The Earl was a Catholic. The daughter of a loyal Church of Englander might never marry him. The lovely...
...endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward the girl (Marguerite de la Motte) who, drooping like a flower, dies in his arms. First swordsman of France, D'Artagnan snatches from the dark tower by the river the betrayed king with his sad, muzzled face. Best shot: the four singing swashbucklers returning from...