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Last night, in a dress rehearsal of the greatest social event of the decade, Hughes wore a black robe with white sash and a pair of spats over his patent eather bedroom slippers...
...Sash Me Father Wore." TIME'S correspondent last week attributed the relative quiet of the celebration to "the desire of the Ulster Government to maintain the status quo, and to the shortage of whiskey." July 12, 1947 in Belfast was not entirely dry, however. As the parade made the turn by the block-long Arcadia Bar, many marchers took a short cut and a pint of Guinness, and joined the parade again as it stomped along singing The Sash Me Father Wore (which was orange, of course...
...Robert E. Lee, the "most magnificent man I ever saw," stands on the steps of a house, faultlessly uniformed in grey, with sword, sash, boots and "beautiful" spurs...
...pipes from their mouths and dressed themselves as anything, from Roman invaders to the Marx brothers. The ladies favored near-nudity, though a handful of sartorial reactionaries came in 18th Century court dress. One man, recently returned from Washington war chores, just wore a seersucker suit with a red sash and a blinding orange tie he had been given by U.S. Steel President Ben Fairless...
Just before Peron put on the sash of office, he brought about Government control of the six great Argentine universities, the Buenos Aires stockmarket, the all-powerful Central Bank, and the Industrial Union (equivalent of the U.S.'s National Association of Manufacturers). Once inaugurated, Peron paid off some old scores. The Government bureaucracy got the biggest shake-up in a generation; everyone "not identified with revolutionary ideals or imbued with the precepts of social justice" was suspect...