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...Schirach memorized passages from Dante's Divine Comedy), Hess, for the most part, lies on the floor of his 7-by 10-ft. cell, clad in grey shirt, brown corduroys and wooden clogs, and practices yoga. During exercise periods, he marches listlessly about the yard in a black overcoat with a white numeral 7 stenciled on its back. Sometimes he reads the Frankfurter Allgemeine or the Communist Neues Deutschland...
Calder seemed to be enjoying the flurry he was creating as he shook hands and consulted with the workmen. On top of his bushy white hair, he sported a Turner Construction Company hardhat. Under his overcoat was a magenia silk ascot...
...crammed with the good-luck charms that his four children have given him over the years?baby shoes, a turquoise marble, a set of jacks, a pipe-cleaner doll, an acorn, a crumbled plaster angel. He put on his fur-lined blue suede shoes and his long navy blue overcoat with the wide Persian lamb lapels, cocked his black beaver fedora rakishly over one eye, and headed for the airport...
Once in China, White was given two suits, an overcoat, four pairs of underwear, ties, and Russian-made shoes that didn't fit. He traveled first-class to Taiyuan, capital of Shansi Province, where he spent a year studying Chinese. Then he went to Peking, where he enrolled at the Chinese Peoples University, attended classes 18 hours a week and eventually was allowed to enter law school in September 1956. During his first year of law courses, White studied Hegel, Marx and Engels, later boned up on Leninist ideology, but was allowed to skip studies on Mao Tse-tung...
...serving in the Italian air force during World War II, he returned to wage his own private war on the concert circuit, soon became known as "the Callas of the piano" for such transgressions as walking out on recording sessions and playing before a white-tie audience with his overcoat on. Performing, he decided, was "a detestable world of managers and journalists, of tricks and schemes in which the only nobility rests in music...