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...this, the shade of her eyes, sir?" she asked the broad, blue-suited gentleman. "Not sure," he replied. "Had a light tan mink in mind, to go with her hair." "Well then," the saleslady replied in a coy tone of voice, "why not buy her both? Everyone gives mink coats for Christmas, but not many men give two." The man thought this over...
...Crabrneat. The discriminee was tall, tan Josephine Baker, the sleek Negro singer who first achieved fame in Paris by entertaining while clad only in a girdle of bananas. Miss Baker and some friends (Roger Rico, current male lead in South Pacific, Mrs. Rico and Mrs. Bessie Buchanan, an old friend of Miss Baker's) had sat down in the Cub Room, where they were served a round of drinks. Then Miss Baker ordered a crabmeat cocktail, a steak and a bottle of wine. One hour later, according to friends, nothing had been served, and the waiters were playing...
...wearing a tan coat, came up to me, put his knee on my back, and asked where my money was. I told him it was in my right hip pocket, and he took my wallet. In it were $9, my bursar's card and driver's license...
...tan coat seemed to be getting nervous. He called to his friend by name. 'Larry,' he said, 'let her go and let's get out of here...
With the deep tan and the glazed eye of a man just back from Shangrila, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas last week flew into San Francisco after a summer of hiking through the Himalayas and plumped for U.S. recognition of Communist China. Recognition would be a "real political victory" for the West, said Douglas. It would help split Communist China, and Communist Russia and would take advantage of the struggle between the Chinese drive for nationalism and Russia's drive to solidify the Far East-"the greatest source of friction between any two nations in the world today...