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...full day sketching, painting, or just jotting down ideas. His pleasures are simple, a few dinners with friends, an occasional jaunt through southern France, and vacations at his seaside house in Normandy. Most of the time he can be found working at home, in a blue smock and sheepskin slippers...
...Little Sheepskin Coat. Then there was Jacob Landau, a New York attorney whose Washington office specialized in fighting tax cases brought by the U.S. Landau paid $5,000 for an oil lease from a man Caudle steered him to, and Caudle collected a $1,000 commission on the deal...
Benny was a close friend of Dick Harlow, the Crimson's great coach from 1935 to 1947, and went to practice every day for 10 years, "Sometimes it would get very cold, and I would borrow a Harvard sheepskin to keep warm." Benny remembers well a closed practice scrimmage with Boston College in which the managers were turning everyone away at the fence. "Dick Harlow put a helmet on me, and when the men stopped me in spite of that, he turned to me and said, 'Come on, coach, you're coming in'. Imagine him calling me coach...
...London auctioneer disposed of the last effects from the English home of Czechoslovakia's late Jan Masaryk, lover of life, who plunged to his death from an office window in Prague three years ago, as the Reds were taking over his country. Two of Masaryk's favorite sheepskin jackets, trimmed with fluffy white wool and decorated with black and red sprays of brilliantly embroidered flowers, plus a felt coat and a pillow cover, fetched ?32. Other clothing, including a pair of shoes, three net scarves with lace borders, a child's white skirt and bodice...
...inner office of the city hall, Lieut. Colonel John Joseph Livingston of Alexandria, Va., deputy chief of the U.S. Army's civil assistance team, sat wearing a sheepskin vest with a pistol strapped around his chest. His telephone rang. He sent an officer down for the mayor. The mayor had gone home. "Get somebody else, then," Livingston said. The officer went down and came back again. "There's nobody, Colonel. Only one man, and I don't even think he works here. I think he's a social friend of somebody in the office and maybe...