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...olive pit at his two married daughters, blew kisses, beamed happily at his wife. But as he rose to speak -still wearing his pistol-tears rolled down his cheeks and his high, thin voice grew almost inaudible. He sat down after less than five minutes, put a big handkerchief to his face. Then he lighted a big cigar...
...Allied press. Fifty-odd newsmen (and some visiting Mexican generals) saw him seated under a pepper tree in Augsburg, fidgeting with a pair of sky-blue gloves. The sun was hot; so were some of the questions. G&246ring sweated, constantly mopped his brow with a rumpled handkerchief. But he lost his composure only once, when a correspondent asked: "What about the Reichsmarshal's statement that if 'the Allies ever bombed Berlin, 'my name is Meyer'?" G&246ring reddened, mopped, fell silent...
...each carrier plane's air-sea rescue kit is a Celanese rayon-acetate map, printed on a salt-and-sun-proof pocket handkerchief...
When his visitors were seated, the tall, timid don (invariably dressed in black clericals) would produce a memorandum book, quickly draw a diagram of the room, and note in it precisely the position of each chair and its occupant's name. If he nervously pulled a handkerchief from his pocket, a cascade of carefully graded pennies, shillings and half crowns was likely to stream onto the floor. At this, he would hurriedly fill the teapot and pace up & down swinging it, for ten minutes exactly -"he claimed the tea was better...
...cost of breakfast, 100 francs. Her car broke down half way to an appointment, so the final three-quarter -mile trip in a Velo taxi cost 300 francs. She took a member of the Consultative Assembly to a moderate-priced restaurant for lunch - 700 francs. Bought a plain white handkerchief to blow her nose in - 90 francs. Bought a weekly supply of cigarets, candy, toothbrush and powder- 25 francs. Bought a cheap diary to keep her dates in -200 francs. Dinner with wine at the Hotel Scribe (Army-operated - therefore inexpensive) 115 francs...