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...carnation and a wee sprig of heather. Less light-hearted was Lieut. Baskervyle Glegg, whose job it was to take care of such military secrets as have so far escaped espionage. Lieutenant Glegg toted his responsibility in a steel dispatch case fastened to his wrist by a three-foot chain. Lieutenant Glegg was heavy of heart because he was, handcuffed to the future of Europe...
...stretch with Mexico's shaggy, shrewd Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najara. Submitting to an Equatorial initiation by Neptune (Eugene P. Thomas of the National Foreign Trade Council), Mr. Landon was pronounced guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors, including Republicanism," splashed with flour paste and shaved with a three-foot razor. He balked only at being thrown into Neptune's swimming pool...
...been for the cinema: a field day for dressmakers and writers of "O Sire" dialogue. The peak moment of Marie Antoinette occurs when Miss Shearer appears in a little number run up for her by MGM's famed Adrian, the skirt of which is held out by three-foot fenders on each side with two handles for its occupant to hold when turning corners...
...Saying farewell to Walter Runciman, hard-headed president of the British Board of Trade who had come to discuss a Reciprocal Trade Agreement (TIME, Feb. i). Franklin Roosevelt presented that longtime shipping man with one of his treasures, a three-foot model of the four-masted schooner Shenandoah...
...found pried open next morning. In Mill Neck, while Mrs. George Bullock entertained guests on her lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley, made away with a three-foot rope of matched pearls worth $300,000, a diamond ring worth $38,000, enough other loot to bring the total to $400,000-largest robbery of its kind in Long Island history...