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...drizzly day at Longchamp racetrack, a resplendent Aly Khan and his handsome son Prince Karim, the Aga Khan, were on hand to watch the running of the Grand Prix de Paris. Like any solicitous father, Aly unfurled his big topcoat to shield Karim from the rain. It was one of their few public appearances together since Karim became Aly's own spiritual ruler, helped dispel rumors that they have not hit it off well lately...
Detective Sgt. Leo Davenport, one of the three detectives called in by university police to question Roderick P. Murphy, noticed that the youth was wearing an expensive-looking but ill-fitting tweed topcoat. Recalling the robbery report, Davenport said, "You gave that guy quite a beating when you stole the coat and wallet...
Police reported that James H. Duffy 3L said that on the night of Feb. 6, he came out of the Signet Society and encountered an assailant. He reportedly regained consciousness in the basement of Winthrop House at 5 a.m., minus his topcoat and a wallet containing $5. Suffering two black eyes and numerous cuts and bruises, he was treated at Stillman and held there for six days...
...Winston Churchill, 83, met for the first time in 14 years in the gardens of the Hotel Matignon, the Paris office-residence of the Premiers of France. The grey, windswept day, with leaves blowing across the garden, had an autumnal look, as did the two figures involved-one in topcoat and scarf, leaning heavily on a stick, and the other still erect but no longer trim. As some 60 top-ranking British and French officers and officials crowded around, De Gaulle pinned to Churchill's overcoat the two-barred Cross of Lorraine, symbol of the Order of Liberation...
...drove their prisoner straight to the San Francisco airport. A U.S. Border Patrol plane sped him to Vancouver, where cooperative Canadian authorities locked him in jail to await a Europe-bound plane. Three days after his arrest, Heikkila landed at chilly Helsinki with $11.50 in cash, no luggage, no topcoat, found that he had suddenly become internationally famous...