Word: overcoats
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...regulars. They stand, smoking, laughing, now beginning a game of Kelly or eight ball, now leaving one of the four tables, game unfinished, to join a circle that has appeared suddenly in a corner. All but two or three are dressed rat: pointy, black pants, dark jacket, overcoat with sharp lapels and a shiny finish...
Behind Blitman, a freshman from across the street in a tweed overcoat is talking to his date...
...only Negro head coach of a major professional team would have a hard time staying out of the spotlight-even if he did not stand 6 ft. 10 in., sport a beard, and wear an opera cape instead of an overcoat. The glare is especially bright for Bill Russell, 33, because he is in his first season as player-coach of the Boston Celtics, whose eight straight National Basketball Association championships make them the most successful team in U.S. pro sport. The only change he can make in the Celtics is a change for the worse. So when people...
Died. Helen Kane, 62, a saucy soubrette from The Bronx who could barely sing a note, but in the flapper-happy '20s turned a baby voice, puckered-up lips, a couple of songs (/ Wanna Be Loved by You, Button Up Your Overcoat) and one nonsense phrase ("boop-boop-a-doop") into a national craze; of cancer; in Queens...
Kamensky's exposure and murder are engineered by Vassili Chubinov, himself a revolutionary and terrorist-and, to be sure, a traitor as well. Chubinov is surely the most appealing anarchist ever conceived. Even his ungainly figure is sketched with sympathy, down to his very overcoat, "hanging on the door in obvious deformity, so badly cut that it did not even fit the air." To him, conspiracy is "a game he happened to enjoy ... his kind...