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...first 60 years of her life the charwoman so honored was Conchita Jurado, a born actress who never got a chance to act. One day in 1926 she forsook her scrubbing brush. She donned trousers, overcoat, slouch felt hat, a false-diamond stickpin and a false black mustache, and sortied into Mexican society. That day and until her death five years later, she was Don Carlos Balmori, an eccentric bachelor grandee with vast fortunes and castles in Spain...
...Detroit, red-haired Walter Reuther, scorning a hat but bundled up in overcoat and muffler, mounted a sound truck and went out to hearten the strikers. He did not try to paint a rosy picture. He reminded them that no strike benefits would be paid by the union, but in time there would be soup kitchens and the union would send a doctor to any member who needed...
During the reading of his 20,000-word statement, he went off to rest. He returned to sit for an hour, an overcoat around his shoulders, while Senators asked questions...
Incorrigible cinemaddicts may insist on regarding Charles Boyer as a romantic figure-even in his shabby overcoat and battered hat. But the hero of Confidential Agent is far from a stock heroic figure. He is middleaged, greying, easily winded and persistent rather than brave. A Spanish Loyalist soldier whose wife and child have been killed, he is sent on a confidential mission to England in 1937 to keep a shipment of coal out of the Nationalists' hands. He is beaten up, shot at and framed for murder. He is chased up dusty stairways and down drab, foggy alleys...
...still only five cigarets per smoker. Taxis are trickling back to the boulevards - although only holders of priority cards, such as expectant mothers and war invalids, may ride. The clothing supply is tight, particularly for men: next year there will be a new suit for every third Frenchman, an overcoat for every tenth. But soap is no longer sand-and-clay; it lathers...