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...combat fatigues, passed in review, the crowds cheered, and when that ominous-looking colossus, the atomic cannon, rolled past, all voices were hushed. And there were old inaugural standbys: the brother rats from V.M.I., the plumed Richmond Blues, the paunchy Governor's Foot Guards of Connecticut in scarlet coats and shakos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Day | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...from its 31,000 stockholders. When the directors returned from their money chase to tell the Prince that four of the biggest banks in France had agreed to put up the money, they found that the Prince's palace gates, guarded by royal carabinieri in blue tunics and scarlet collars, were closed to them. In a huff, the three resigned to make room for Onassis' representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Man Who Bought the Bank | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church have traditionally dressed as befits their princely rank. A cardinal's minimum ceremonial wardrobe, including ermine-tipped cape and watered-silk robes in purple and scarlet, costs at least $3,000. Last week, on the heels of his appointment of 24 new cardinals (TIME, Dec. 8), Pope Pius XII ordered members of the Sacred College to scale down on the splendor. The world situation, said a papal decree, enjoins "a sober tenor of life upon all and a measured and austere one, particularly upon the clergy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sober Life, Sober Vestments | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...prelate who has to outfit himself from scratch. Specifically, the Pope has ordered : 1) that the fantail on both purple and red cassocks be eliminated, 2) that purple robes, which are used in time of mourning and during Lent and Advent, be made of wool instead of silk (the scarlet formal dress will continue to be made of silk), 3) that the six-yard train on the cappa magna, the long ceremonial cape which cardinals wear, be shortened to three yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sober Life, Sober Vestments | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...when Elizabeth II, clad in a pale gold evening dress and white ermine cloak, at last emerged from the palace and entered the Irish State Coach. Breastplated household cavalrymen rode ahead, scarlet outriders trotted alongside as the Queen was borne to Westminster through wave after wave of band music and past a United Press photographer who got a memorably radiant picture of the young Queen (see cut). At Westminster she was greeted by an ear-splitting bray of heraldic trumpets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pray Be Seated | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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