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Frederika did not mind at all. She loved being allowed to ride on Florence streetcars, leaping up to give her seat to the elderly while she herself clung to a strap. Generally hatless, informally dressed and never too neat ("I don't believe Frederi-ka's seams were ever straight," said one teacher), the German princess seemed in many ways as American as her schoolmates. They called her "Freddy" and even "Fried Egg," and often gathered in her room to help her wrestle with the groaning accordion she sought to master...
...stop." He smiled apologetically. "Symbol, you know." Then proudly, "Green Key." Friend stopped the car and Hatless raced back over a bridge or so to retrieve the woolie. He clutched it firmly. "We wear these uniforms when we meet people." "Oh," we said, "that's nice...
...draws a $100,000-plus salary, has seen his plowed-back profits build him a personal fortune which he puts at $30 million, most of it in his company. But despite his wealth, he has no use for show. He drives his own Ford, eats $1 lunches, goes hatless to avoid hatcheck tips. But he is not penurious. A lover of music (he plays the violin), he was one of the main supports of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for six years with donations totaling more than $2,000,000. At 52, Reichhold, who now makes his headquarters in New York...
...salute to the crowds during most of the motor trip down from Hyde Park. In 1941 he was again incapacitated by one of his few illnesses after he stood for an hour bareheaded during Armistice Day ceremonies. King George V contracted his final illness by standing hatless in the rain before England's War Memorial...
...German soldiers began roughly turning people out of their houses. "Get up to the square," some of them shouted in French. The sick came in their pajamas. Marcelin Thomas, the town baker, appeared, stripped to the waist and still covered with flour, while Curé Jacques Lorich strode along hatless. Mothers came pushing baby carriages. In less than 20 minutes, the populace was assembled, about a third of them children. Only then did the French notice that these were no ordinary Germans...