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...friends are in France or the Near East. Evelyn Waugh is a marine, Rex Whistler a guardsman, Noel Coward a man of official importance...
...home at the edge of the Arizona desert near Tucson, 79-year-old General "Black Jack" Pershing, straight as a guardsman and looking like John Barrymore in his prime, read the revelations of Secretary Lansing, called in reporters to make some of his own. Said he: on Oct. 30, 1918, twelve days before the Armistice, he had argued against it, had told the Allied Supreme War Council that they might lose the chance to make a permanent peace on secure principles if they let Germany negotiate then. He had wanted Germany to be forced to lay down arms unconditionally. Foch...
Next morning, the jovial host, a 225-lb. onetime Danish Guardsman named Lauritz Melchior, felt that things had perhaps been carried a little too far. His wife took pieces of cake and candy to the neighbors, assuring them that such a thing would never happen again. The neighbors allowed themselves to be placated. For Mrs. Melchior is very persuasive. And Lauritz Melchior is the world's No. 1 Wagnerian tenor...
With his Duchess in tow, the Duke of Windsor entered swank Fortnum & Mason's department store in London, interrupted a Welsh Guardsman at the biscuit counter: "Are you buying biscuits, too?" No, said the Guardsman, he was getting a camp bed and a few warm things. Tickled to be in harness again, the Duke bought the articles over the officer's protest, selfconsciously announced: "Go ahead. It's all right. I'm your Colonel-in-Chief...
...shot in the gunpowder magazine might blast them all to kingdom-come. Swallowing his professional pride, Marksman Peskin inched closer, then fired. The bullet pinked the beast between the eyes, but miraculously he bounded across the deck, roaring like a pampero. Drawing a bead on the rampaging lion, each guardsman fired. This time he dropped for good...