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...York Harbor last week and eased into quarantine, paced an authentic-looking Viking. He was Able Seaman Eugen Knutsen, burdened for a reception tableau with a shirt of mail and the weight of 938 years of Norse legend. At quarantine, Viking Knutsen received a visitor. She was Rosebud Yellow Robe, sprightly, college-bred great grandniece of Sitting Bull. Last week Rosebud mislaid her peace pipe but gave sheepish Leif a beaded tobacco pouch and the welcoming ceremony was over...
Protesting, but obedient, Youngster Davis divested himself. Standing in his shirtsleeves, he admitted that his robe, tattered and full of holes, had been borrowed from another judge a generation ago. Then Judge Buffington helped him into a fine new robe, sent by dressy old Judge Isaac Meekins of Elizabeth City...
...occasion of some solemnity, but I can't feel it so. No one so far has paid any attention to Judge Davis, who is lamentably lame in one regard." He turned to the fourth ancient, Judge J. Warren Davis, 71, not retiring. "I refer to his robe, which for years has been the despair and humiliation of every one connected with this Court. It is a sad commentary on the administration of justice, and the concern over it has reached way down to his native State of North Carolina. Before we hand over the judgeship of this Court...
...also site of Mies van der Robe's famed hillside house, the Chartres of modern architecture...
...three weeks incognito as Mr. Said, the Sultan managed to reach town one day ahead of Albania's Princesses Myzeyen, Ruhijé and Maxhide, resumed his royal status in Washington's Union Station where he emerged from his train dressed in native costume of brown robe, white undershirt, jeweled turban and dagger. Promptly and rudely nicknamed "Sultan Muskrat" by Washington reporters, Oman's monarch naturally received the same amount of official attention that would have gone to England's George VI. After a 21-gun salute and exhibition drill from the Third Cavalry and 16th Field...