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Soon Tex caught an even more important eye-Walter Chrysler's. Colbert helped Chrysler's son-in-law Edgar Garbisch (the famed West Point center and dropkicker) organize Tish Inc. (paper handkerchiefs). Colbert did such a good job that when Chrysler wanted Nick Kelley to open an office in Chrysler's Detroit headquarters, Colbert was the natural choice...
...always a possibility in London) would absolutely ruin her navy blue straw with velvet ribbons and the grey silk print she had bought in Paris. Then, too, there was the devastating possibility that a member of the Royal Family might speak to her. "I just hope to goodness," said Tish, "that I haven't a plate of food in my hand if I have to curtsy...
...curtsies, the 100-odd Americans mingled with the 5,000 Britons at the party found it hard to get close to royalty. Mrs. Adele Vercoe, who is an old hand at such functions, having lived in England on & off for years, managed a quick bob before the Queen Mother. Tish had to content herself with lesser folk. "The men," she said later, "were the most attractive bunch I've ever seen, but then I think Englishmen are terrific anyway...
...party was a huge success from the U.S. point of view. As Tish said: "It was one of the most wonderful experiences I've ever had, just one of those typical English things we can't reproduce in America...
...last wartime's best sellers appear particularly relevant: Winston Churchill's A Far Country, Penrod, Tish, Over the Top, The First Hundred Thousand, Belgium's Agony...