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...into disastrous ambush, is shot by one of his own infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with him." And so the bridge is taken, and so the Colonel dies, and so the battalion comes to "The Hill," a point beyond Caen, where the Germans had held long and stubbornly...
...Still of the Night. Porter's passion for high living is supplemented by a passion for tidiness, which extends to details as small as the boutonniere that is always in his lapel. His Waldorf suite is fastidiously neat. His valet has to be meticulous about keeping familiar things in familiar places: cigarettes, cough drops, bric-a-brac, Kleenex, sharpened pencils. When Porter travels, even his own ashtrays go with him, and he likes them kept so neat that at parties a servant cleans them up almost before a guest can crunch a cigarette out. When Porter went to Philadelphia...
Strictly speaking (an unusual habit for Vag), he had been an auditor for the past four years. He had taken a few notes, clipped some campaign speeches and studded his lapel with a button or two. But he had written no Congressmen, signed no petitions. For the most part, he had only sat and listened, a government auditor with his ear miles off the ground...
Among the 434 European immigrants who landed in Chile this summer was a plump, dreamy-eyed little man named Edward Sienkiewicz. His greying hair was as long as Liszt's; his hands were uncallused and he carried a cello. But the card on his lapel said that he was an expert on fishing, and so he was listed in the catalogue of immigrants' skills...
...Student Apathy League, Harvard's only side of the road political organization, came sleepkwalking into its second term yesterday. Boasting no boosters, solicitors, or lapel snatchers the apathy league holds together its 3000 odd members by the sheer force of inertia...