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...letters, was arraying himself in exquisite evening dress: "Tails by Lesley and Roberts in Hanover Square, waistcoat by Hawes and Curtis . . . silk hat by Locke . . . monk shoes by Fortnum and Mason's . . . crystal and diamond links by Boucheron . . . gold cigarette case by Asprey ... a drop of rose geranium on my handkerchief." But Beverley was not at ease. While he dressed and sipped a sidecar, he stared into his mirror and asked himself anxiously: "What is wrong with you? Why aren't you happy...
...raise their voices." And what, if anything, could a playboy like Beverley do to disperse the clouds, delay the final act, silence the raised voices? All I Could Never Be, Nichols' second autobiographical book, tells exactly what Beverley did; but, as it is well spiced with rose-geranium anecdotes and set against a backdrop of Mayfair and Riviera high life, its place on the library shelf is beside Noel Coward and Sir Osbert Sitwell rather than beside Oswald Spengler and St. Augustine...
...year of improvement and hope; the dismal trends of the recent season may dissipate quickly and make these dire forebodings look ludicrous. We simply felt it was our duty to bring our readers up to date and to inform them that, as of now, 1952 was no geranium...
...took to the road again. Chicago, like San Francisco, Washington and New York, gave him the biggest welcome in memory. Downtown business closed up, stores barricaded their windows, and crowds applauded wildly as he was driven along a 23-mile route from the airport to his hotel in a geranium-red Lincoln with 100 motorcycle cops leading the way. That night at Soldier Field, 50,000 (not a capacity crowd) cheered him to the echo when he rose-after being driven around the great bowl in the dramatic glare of a single searchlight beam-to make the second formal speech...
...Eggs, butter, meat? . . . There is literally nothing in our grocery store at home that Mrs. Fairless can buy for as little as 3½? a pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants on your window sill, you could buy it at your neighborhood seed store for 7? a pound . . . Steel is literally cheaper than dirt...