Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telegram to his equerry which read, 'I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters.' I learned that Farouk screamed like a pig-what else?-when he saw the telegram." Farouk, always in need of money, slapped a $14,000 defamation-of-character suit on Elsa, who also has little money but seldom needs it. The hearing ended last week, and three Paris judges will hand down their decision this week. His corpulent Majesty did not appear in court. Full-bodied Defendant Maxwell's out-of-court defense was basically zoological. "I've never been...
Nikita Khrushchev moved out of his wood-paneled office in the Kremlin one day last week so a CBS crew could strew it with cameras, lights and sound equipment. Next afternoon Russia's most powerful Communist stepped into the glare wearing the light grey suit the TV men had suggested, and two Hero of Socialist Labor medals on his chest. He firmly rejected any makeup, declined earphones for the simultaneous translation system, corrected an introduction describing the office as the room where Russia's major decisions are made: "We don't have a cult of personality...
...ever had. Now, as U.S. education's No. 1 Lord Bountiful and as the nation's chief philanthropoid, he has the delicate task of keeping the world's biggest foundation both bold and cautious, risky but responsible, of being himself the Pioneer in the Grey Flannel Suit. It is the duty of a foundation, he once said, to "pioneer ahead of popular opinion." Then he added characteristically: "To be ahead -but not too far ahead...
...handlers laid out fresh clothes as Fats mopped his face and clambered out of his tan silk suit (he owns 51 such rigs). The band got a quick dressing-down: "You guys ain't playin' wuth a cotton picker's wages-a real crummy beat." Then, turning to reporters, Fats philosophized about his wearying one-night stands: "Gold all the way, but man, they get old." Fats's gold standards are high: he estimates that he will make $600,000 to $700,000 this year, spend $60,000 on a house in New Orleans...
...diamond stickpin in a rich new tie. From the stage, the whine of an electric guitar and the bleat of a sax vibrated through the walls; the rock 'n' roll picadors were wearing down the audience. As his handlers hovered, Fats stuffed himself into a fresh, shimmering suit, then stepped daintily out of the dressing room and trotted onstage for the kill...