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...read with interest your Aug. 5 column of social notes from Tegernsee. Two summers ago, our outfit [A-Co., 141st Inf., 36th Div.] was entertained briefly on the shores of the lovely "indigo" lake-a"small, intimate affair sponsored by a group of 55 troopers, and watched by about 5,000 Wehrmacht convalescent wounded...
...weather, proverbially lovely in the Bavarian lake country, couldn't have been better. Pert little sailboats darting about the indigo water of the Tegernsee, against a background of hazy blue mountains, made the perfect setting for a season that had not been equaled in brilliance for six years...
...fans of the Duke's Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady and It Don't Mean a Thing days, the concert had the taste of a stale highball. They had come for ginmill stuff and had been served something more like a bad-year champagne. The Duke once more dragged out such pretentious symphonic items as Black, Brown and Beige (listed as "a musical parallel to the history of the American Negro"); Perfume Suite ("each section . . . tries to convey the essence of a particular fragrance"). Until late in the evening, when the band got back to being itself on easy...
Hollywood finally got in on San Francisco's show. The movies took over the signing ceremony this week. The stage in the Veterans' Building auditorium was lowered to orchestra-floor level. Indigo blue drapes circled the room; in the center was a huge circular table with a smoky blue base and cover. A royal blue runner led through a narrow opening in the drapes. Through this aperture the delegations would file, one at a time, to sit in gold-backed Louis Quinze chairs...
Postage Pilferer. For 33 years Charles worked as a clerk in the East India Company, totting up sales figures for tea, indigo, silks and spices. Neighbors used to set their watches when his tiny figure emerged in the morning. Dressed in black, his spindly legs sheathed in Chinese silk stockings, and carrying a green umbrella, Lamb walked placidly to work. He "looked no one in the face for more than a moment, yet contrived to see everything." Perched on his high office stool, he mailed, at the East India Company's expense, the numerous letters written by his youthful...