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That afternoon, at a garden party, the royal couple met, among 2,800 guests, red-turbaned Somali tribesmen, Masai elders in monkey skins, wielding flywhisks of horsehair, and a chief who sported, screwed into his pierced lower lip, an ivory pendant as big as a billiard ball. Elizabeth had still not overcome the nervousness noted on her Canadian visit, but Philip moved easily, chatted graciously, as though enjoying every moment...
...Faiths Committee gathered dresses, perfume, knickknacks, and jewelry that included a diamond necklace with emerald pendant. With white-dinner-jacketed Auctioneer Coe spurring on the bidding at a party in the Patio Restaurant, St. Edward's netted...
...opening of the first college building, they sang an old metrical version of the 65th Psalm ("Thy praise alone, O Lord, doth reign / in Sion Thine own hill . . ."). Then Whitney Griswold, wearing around his neck the "president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition of his predecessors, he stepped to the lectern to declare his credo...
...Faced Woman. In Paris, Schiaparelli showed a new cocktail hat that would make even the lightest drinker see double. One side is a profile of the wearer (see cut), with a glittering brooch to simulate the eye, and a pendant "earring." Price, including jewelry...
Hodding Carter still remembers two disturbing things from his Louisiana boyhood. He was only six when he saw a yelping gang of white boys chasing a Negro kid. Several years later, he came upon the pendant body of a lynch victim. Those violent pictures never faded from his mind. Last week, for flaying racism wherever he found it, Editor Hodding Carter, 39, of the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat Times, won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize ($500)* for distinguished editorial writing. Especially cited: his plea for fairness to returning Nisei soldiers...