Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four of the 29 surviving soldiers of the Confederate Army tramped into Little Rock, Ark. last week for their 59th annual reunion, chortled in high glee over a new explanation for the surrender at Appomattox. The story: that General Robert E. Lee handed his sword and hat to General U.S. Grant because he took him to be the doorman. Then, with a sidelong glance at the last survivors of the G.A.R., who had held their last encampment four weeks ago, they decided to keep meeting each year "as long as there are two of us able to meet...
...cheesecake and photographs, re-enacting the whole affair for posterity. El Morocco banned Bogart "for life" in a pronunciamento delivered in tones as sepulchral as if he were being sentenced to the electric chair. It was, the management explained, his second offense -he had once insisted on keeping his hat on and threatened to push his cigarette in a customer's face...
There were other attractions. For 25 lire, Communists could measure their strength by pulling a huge sickle which-when pulled hard enough-brought a huge hammer crashing down on the head of a fat capitalist dummy in frock coat and top hat. For less athletic comrades, Unità made its points more subtly, in exhibits of socio-political art and Russian literature. An elderly Russian woman in a lacy Ukrainian peasant blouse stood by the book exhibit. A young associate explained: "Mrs. Jakobs is here on purpose to translate the Russian writings into Italian for the comrades. If a comrade...
...said in advance that he would give the money gifts from his hero-worshiping fans to charity. But there was a lot more than money ($7,500) in the gifts that were showered on him: two automobiles, a motorboat, two television sets, a radio, two watches, a $100 hat, an electric blanket, shirts, ties, a watch chain, potatoes, oranges, walnuts, lima beans, homemade lemonade, 300 quarts of ice cream. After the speeches, Joe bit his lip and let the tears run down his cheeks. "I thank the good Lord that he made me a Yankee," he said...
...Twelfth Night," a well-tried. In last it is being tried again in New York this week. But you are lucky to be in Cambridge. The performance here is no chuke job. The costumes and get are extravagantly eighteenth century, and appearing prominently in gold braid and squashed top-hat is the late W. C. Fields via Jerry Kilty as Sir Tobey Belch. In this Kilty has resisted the case of playing another Falstaff, which he does well, and instead successfully innovates a double impersonation...