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When she has answered her letters, Wanda Landowska is ready to descend. She loops her long, still-black hair, only sparsely greyshot, around her head, dons her blazing red corduroy robe ("red is for violence, like Bach, sometimes"), her flat, gold-mesh slippers and goes down to the kitchen for a breakfast of figs, dates and lettuce...
...deep new tan and recovered his old bounce. The veins that stood out on his forehead and hands during the last days of the campaign were no longer visible. And, most convincing to any wife, Ike remembered Mamie's birthday (her 56th) with a pink wool robe and a nightgown...
Like Victoria at her first Parliament, Elizabeth II has not yet been crowned. Her crown was borne before her on a crimson cushion by the Marquess of Salisbury; a coronet of diamonds and pearls took the crown's place on her brow. A velvet robe caped with ermine hung from her shoulders, its 6-yd. train supported by two page boys. At her left walked her husband, Philip, who foreswore the traditional trappings of a Royal Duke for the dress uniform of a naval commander.* He guided Elizabeth to a spot just before her throne and stepped down...
Buddhism is one of the most pervasive of all religions, and theologically one of the most accommodating. In the 2,500 years since Gautama Buddha first preached his doctrines in India, they have spread over Asia like a billowing saffron robe. In the process, Buddhist doctrines have been porous enough to admit and blend with local beliefs, such as spirit-worship in Burma, Confucianism in China, and the ancestor worship of Japanese Shinto...
...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk's fine novel of the Navy's war in the Pacific, has turned out to be the hardiest fiction bestseller since Lloyd Douglas' The Robe (1942). The Douglas novel stayed on the Publisher's Weekly list of five top fiction sellers for 32 months. Caine is now in its 17th month. It's sales to date: 325,000 copies (The Robe sold nearly...