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Died. Lord Raglan, 79, British author and anthropologist, great-grandson of the man who ordered the charge of the Light Brigade and invented the slope-shouldered Raglan sleeve, himself a salty-tongued gadfly who in the course of nine lively volumes (Myth and Drama, How Came Civilization?) suggested, among other things, that Shakespeare was the least literate member of a sixman playwriting syndicate; of a heart attack; in Monmouthshire, England...
...cent camel hair wool blazer. This natural shoulder model with three pearl buttons and flap pockets sells for $69.50. Topping off a three piece camel ensemble is a handsome cotton or heek suede outerwear jacket with up sleeves and a full sherpa lining. The shawl collar, raglan shoulder, slash pockets, and leather buttons light this imported jacket from mark. It comes in old gold and olive and is priced at only...
When Lord Lucan received the order, he was dumfounded. Unlike Lord Raglan, who was perched on the heights, he could see nothing but the guns in the Russian batteries. "Attack what?" he asked the aide who brought the order. "What guns, sir?" To which the excited aide is said to have replied, sweeping his hand toward the end of the valley, "There, my lord, is. your enemy, there are your guns...
...know it." said Lord Lucan. shrugging, "but Lord Raglan will have it. We have no choice but to obey...
...Lord Raglan is enshrined in the "raglan" -a bulky overcoat with shoulders cut in a sporty, informal slope. As for Lord Lucan, only Irish tradition remembers him: it refers to him as "The Exterminator." Yet all three men would have one thing in common if they were alive today-a sense of horror at the reforms which they unwittingly helped to bring into the British