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...breezy Texan and vice-commander of the Legion, was in Rome last week. He called on Italy's King Victor Emanuel and Premier Benito Mussolini, afterwards confided to the Press: "Premier Mussolini asked for the pin I wore on my hat and I pinned it on his lapel. I offered the King the one I had on my coat and pinned it on his lapel. He said he was very proud to wear it." Thus Vice-Commander Eas terwood thought he had made Italy's King and Premier honorary members of the American Legion...
...President & Mrs. Roosevelt dined two dozen, mostly relatives. Sara Delano Roosevelt, the President's mother, went down from Hyde Park for the party. As it was also St. Patrick's Day, the President wore a green silk handkerchief embroidered with "Happy Days," a green carnation in his lapel. He told friends his green tie was worn...
...stopped before the bandstand, crowded with notables. A lapel microphone was put into his hand. He pulled himself up on the car's downfolded top and began one of the brief, pleasant little speeches at which he is so adept...
...Roosevelt finished his brief broadcast, handed the lapel microphone to the station manager. To fill in, Mr. Mizer began to describe the crowd scene when the eccentric little Italian stood on tip-toe to open fire. Though Mr. Mizer later declared he had signed off when the excitement began, Miami's famed Pressagent Steve Hannagan, who sweated with the Press to get the story out on the assumption that for publicity purposes any news is good news, said he heard the soothing voice of the announcer report: "There seems to be some excitement here in the crowd...
...Overwhelmingly" gentle in voice, elaborately formal in manner, Proust smiled continually, gazed fondly at society from brilliant black eyes under drooping eyelids and "a Saracen's beak." Extravagant, generous?his tips were fantastic?he dressed like the dandy he was: creamy pink shirtfront, a rose or orchid in his lapel, light-colored gloves with black points. Even in summer, for fear of catching cold, he wore a heavy pelisse. An impressed English visitor to Paris said that Proust was "really the only man I ever saw dining in a fur coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac...