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Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Henry Adams remarked, "was a child of Benvenuto Cellini, smothered in an American cradle." Saint-Gaudens certainly lacked Cellini's proud fire; in his prime he was a jovial, auburn-bearded member of 15 clubs-a frock-coated good fellow of the sort that two world wars have made as nearly extinct as the buffalo-who roared out popular ballads while he worked, and finished the day with dinner at Delmonico's. And unlike the supremely articulate Florentine, Saint-Gaudens simply could not talk about art; he was afraid, he explained, that he would...
...Frock Coat & Beard. All last week, other Republicans were out in full force from coast to coast: Speaker Joe Martin in New York, Governor Earl Warren in Los Angeles, Candidate Harold Stassen in Philadelphia. In Indianapolis, G.O.P. Chairman Carroll Reece rounded up a stable of Republican orators for a nationwide Lincoln Day broadcast. In Boston, a Massachusetts college president dressed up in a frock coat and long black beard to recite Lincoln's second inaugural address...
Money as a Tool. The career started 14 years ago. Eccles, a staunch Mormon, was also a staunch advocate of the theory that money is a tool to be used, not hoarded. As a young man in Mormon frock coat and silk hat, he had proselytized for the Latter-Day Saints along Glasgow's Clydeside. As a Utah enterpriser, he had used the sizable fortune inherited from his pioneer father to build a small empire of sugar, lumber and construction companies, and 28 banks throughout Utah and Idaho...
Among College idlers in the Square rumor has it that the sign "William L. Tutin, Bookseller," marks the entrance to a den of subversive activities. "It looks mighty suspicious to me," said one passerby, referring to the three frock-coated, be-spectacled employees scurrying to and fro in a seemingly pointless...
...courtyard. In the lofty Blue Drawing Room, Molotov and colleagues stuck together in a tight little knot and touched neither the champagne cup nor the whiskey and sherry. They did not even smoke. George Marshall stuck with U.S. Ambassador Douglas. Winston Churchill, looking as gloomy as his frock coat, left early. The King talked to Molotov a little longer than to his other visitors...