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...Adlai Stevenson's house the night of the primary vote in Minnesota. You say it was to be "a black tie dinner." It wasn't. There wasn't a black tie there, and the "red tartan dinner jacket" that Stevenson wore is not a dinner jacket but a dilapidated spare coat. You say "with only his really good friends in politics invited." There were two people for supper at his house that night: Stevenson and a friend from out of town, George Ball. Stevenson's law partner Bill Wirtz and his wife arrived about...
...there was an estimate that he would win 55% to 60% of the vote. At his country home in Libertyville, Ill., he scheduled a victory party on primary night. It was to be just the kind of political gathering Stevenson likes: a black tie dinner (he wore a red tartan dinner jacket), with only his really good friends in politics invited-the wealthy, intellectual, aristocratic amateurs. Among the guests were Washington Lawyer George Ball, Louisville Editor (Courier-Journal) Barry Bingham. Chicago Industrialist (duplicating machines) Edison Dick. By the time that Stevenson's sister and biographer (My Brother Adlai), Elizabeth...
...when Moscow's Savoy Hotel refused to admit a bearded Korean hen named Skippy, which the Wards had brought with them from China, Angus promptly rented for Skippy a country house complete with personal maid. In off-duty hours Ward affected loud plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort of costume, reinforced by his Vandyke beard, produced a distinctly undiplomatic effect, and veteran Foreign Service men still recall with delight the day when a newly arrived junior official, mistaking him for the doorman of the Moscow embassy, curtly handed...
...Madison Square Garden, the purple spotlights came on and in marched the Regimental Band in black bearskins, scarlet tunics and blue trousers. Then came the Massed Pipers of the ist and 2nd Battalions, swishing their royal Stuart tartan kilts and armed with dirks and skean dhu (daggers). The two groups formed at opposite ends of the arena and began the kind of show that Britons stage better than anybody else in the world...
...Bearcat. It was furthered by increased weekend living, during which men assumed a dressed-up casualness. Last week Manhattan's Brooks Brothers advertised "casual clothes for evening," an ensemble consisting of a shawl-collared jacket in red, green, yellow or black, with "trousers in black with green-black Tartan stripes, narrow alternating stripes and attractive checks" down the sides...