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Ashes to Ashes. On wound the procession, the foreign dignitaries in the rear making a poor show beside the disciplined march of the military. Drab in topcoat and tophat they walked, wearing the abstracted look which the important learn to adopt under the pressure of staring eyes-neither marching nor sauntering, in a kind of compromise stiff-legged strut, along the weary three-mile route. At Paddington they broke ranks at last, milling and chatting discreetly as the coffin was loaded on to the funeral train amid the skirling of pipes. As the train pulled out, a blind...
Stolen from Lowell House were an $800 muskrat fur coat owned by Susan Inglis, Wellesley '52, and an $800 sheared coon coat owned by Ellen Daggett, a student at the University of Minnesota. Also lost in Lowell were a $70 topcoat with an $8 pair of shoes in the pockets belonging to Robert L. Wiley '52 and a $25 topcoat owned by Lawrence D. Stifel...
Jack Manning '52 said the rooms "smelled worse than a locker room." In one of the bedrooms they found the cause--old clothes which the thief had discarded. William Spence '52 missed a new summer suit and a shirt, and David Waring '51 lost a topcoat...
Professor Merk left hame early that morning bundled heavily in topcoat, muffier, gloves and snow-boots. Resolutely he fought his way eastward through head-high drifts toward Concord Turnpike two blocks away...
Hong Kong's shops and department stores were bursting with the goods of East & West. In a space of 20 yards on Queen's Road a shopper could have his choice of a Cantonese pressed duck, a London-made Burberry topcoat or a large Chinese Communist flag. The abaci of the money-changers clicked steadily. Passports to European countries were selling for as high as $8,000 apiece. On nearby Ice House Street the firm of Lo & Lo, Solicitors, reported a thriving business...