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...pretty young head by choosing Bing Crosby as her favorite crooner, waltzed with a chef in the Royal Servants' Hall of Buckingham Palace. In the same room Lillibet's royal father was taking a whirl with the butler's wife, and her mother with a footman. The occasion: the household staff's annual Christmas party, at which the members of the royal family customarily democratize, the staff admirably Crichton...
...footman flings open the portals of my palace in that New Jerusalem for me; another unrolls a red path of velvet to the enormous motor which floats me through the city traffic-I leaning back like Ed ward VII, or like God, on leather cushions, smoking a big cigar...
...Eternal Footman is always there to hold his hat and snicker: "The servant gave me my coat and hat, and in a glow of self-satisfaction I walked out into the night. 'A delightful evening,' I reflected, 'the nicest kind of people. What I said about finance and philosophy impressed them; and how they laughed when I imitated a pig squealing...
...John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice, Through the Looking-Glass and other drawings (collection of the late Bronson Winthrop, onetime law partner of War Secretary Henry L. Stim-son). The Gryphon, as well as the King and Queen of Hearts, the White Rabbit, the Mock Turtle, the Frog-Footman, and Alice herself brought good prices on the auction block. A drawing of Alice at the moment her neck started to lengthen ("Curiouser and curiouser!") went for $475, top figure for the series; Alice and the Gryphon (see cut), $220; the whole block of Tenniel originals...
...Jackson Day dinner, and a request with it for a $100 check for the Democratic National Committee. Last summer, there was an invitation to a party for General de Gaulle. Always before, he had ignored the invitations, but this time the liquor and cigarets and the Soviet footman stirred him to action. He soon discovered the obvious explanation: there were two Harry D. Whites in Washington...