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...Communists made no "ideological commitments" to the Communists. But in the streets, cafés and foreign embassies, it was received quite plainly as a victory for the Communists. It was a great coup for Russian Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev: for 2½ years he has been backslapping through the Grecian hinterlands, working to efface the bitter anti-Communism of civil-war days...
...should be mentioned all the time.") The other belonged to "Wally,'' Duchess of Windsor, whose well-publicized feuding with Elsa is a matter of far greater study to international cafe society than all the legends of all the Grecian Isles. With regal precision, Wally, who was not invited on the cruise, timed her arrival in Venice to coincide exactly with that of Elsa's guests. "His Royal Highness and I come here," she cooed to a reporter, "expressly not to take part in the social life...
...model, under the delusion that he is a centaur, is planning to tour the Parthenon. The suitcase contains a pocket model of the edifice, but this is no substitute for Keats' "Ode to a Grecian...
...McCardell firsts stretches back 20 years. She was the first to modernize the dirndl skirt (1938) and the first to use trouser pockets and pleats in women's clothes (1938). She was the first with the widely copied "Monastic" dress, a full and shapeless forerunner of the pleated Grecian sheath and all the other unwaisted dresses. It seemed to have no form. But when it was belted on, it did great things for the female figure. It was McCardell who first started using blue-jean stitching for design in rough denims (1943), and she was the first with...
...sides and history breathing down everyone's neck like a rozzer bent on making a pinch, one is tempted to state unequivocally that Bertram Wooster, Esq. is one of the few unchanging figures of the times. Stable is the word that comes to mind. Enduring. The old Grecian marble sort of thing. Still, as Jeeves would say, appearances may be deceptive. For after years of presenting to the world an upper lip not necessarily on the stiff side but always as smooth as a baby's whatever-it-is, Wooster has now grown a mustache. Dashing...