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...Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, M.P., a shorthaired, winter jacket sounded like heaven. To Magistrate Harold McKenna at Bow Street Police Court, it sounded like a violation of rationing regulations. Lady Astor had written a friend in the U.S., asking him to bring the jacket, plus silk stockings, evening shoes, a dress collar and a white skirt...
...mountain stream which runs down the steep slope were nine more bodies within a 25-yd. area. There were plenty of bullet clips in the little leather cases which hung on the wearers' belts. Near the bottom of the slope lay the body of a Japanese captain. His silk white handkerchief was centered by a lewd ink sketch. A couple of hundred yards down the valley we found a dead Japanese officer who carried, like most Japs, photographs of his wife and children. It had rained the previous night, so the officer's open mouth was half filled...
...tops $36,000 a year, four to six times the pay of most tunnel superintendents. He also has a collection of hats-all won by breaking records. When he won his last bet, an opera hat, he blurted: "What the hell does anyone my height do with a high silk...
...carried his luggage wrapped in a bandanna. When he arrived at the big resort of Nikko he went to a tailor shop, got his silk shirt and white trousers pressed for 20 sen (6?), searched until he found a hotel he liked. "My room and two meals each day in this, perhaps the very finest native inn in all Japan, was two yen fifty...
Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch got a wire of thanks from Mrs. Winston Churchill. She said that she and her daughters were glad to have a couple of dozen silk stockings he had slipped among the Prime Minister's effects for them...