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...only extraverted thing about Yeats is his clothes. Sixtyish, he generally appears in a grey suit with velvet lapels and sports an emerald stickpin in his wide black tie. When a reporter cornered him last week to ask a few questions, Yeats had an all-inclusive answer. "An artist's personality," he said, "should manifest itself in his work. Personally I have always resented any attempt to make copy out of my private life...
...death, he received the honors due a man of talent and position. Mississippi sent a detachment of 50 national guardsmen to keep a watch as Bilbo, resplendent in the red tie and diamond stickpin which had been his campaign badge, lay in state at the Dream House. The U.S. Senate will pay for his funeral. Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright, Senator James 0. Eastland, five Congressmen, scores of state officials, crowded into the Juniper Grove Baptist Church (built with Bilbo's donations) to attend the services. Five thousand humbler folk stood outside in the churchyard and listened...
...such fast maneuvering, slender, affable Ferd Owen, 58, has become the biggest mule and horse trader in the U.S. His natty suits, hickory cane, and diamond stickpin (shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal...
Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, still champion of white supremacy at 68, had an important communiqué for the waiting world. He smoothed his bright red necktie, adjusted the diamond horseshoe stickpin that he bought for $92.50 at a 1916 auction. Then he announced...
...first 60 years of her life the charwoman so honored was Conchita Jurado, a born actress who never got a chance to act. One day in 1926 she forsook her scrubbing brush. She donned trousers, overcoat, slouch felt hat, a false-diamond stickpin and a false black mustache, and sortied into Mexican society. That day and until her death five years later, she was Don Carlos Balmori, an eccentric bachelor grandee with vast fortunes and castles in Spain...