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Resplendent in a black tailored topcoat, carefully-tilted Homburg and what Missouri-born Harry Truman likes to call "striped pants," the new Spanish ambassador arrived at the White House last week to present his credentials to the President of the U.S. Harry Truman, who bitterly dislikes Franco, did not dally with Ambassador Don Jose Felix de Lequerica y Erquiza. The whole ceremony took less than three minutes, including two handshakes and an exchange of formal greetings. But for all the hustle, Don Jose managed to have his say. Said...
...conservatives who set their alarms for 6:50 and had a good breakfast before they set out to catch the 8:04 commuter train, and the mad-dashers who lolled till after 7. But by the time they reached the station, dressed in the standard uniform of gabardine topcoat and mouse-grey hat, they were pretty indistinguishable. For these were young men planning to get ahead in the world, ex-G.I.s to a man, whose stay at Camptown, they assured one another, was "only temporary...
...Coats lined with fabric metalized by the Milium process, which are being made by Hart Schaffner & Marx and others. By coating the underside of the fabric with an aluminum solution, the process makes a topcoat as warm as a winter coat, a sheet as warm as a heavy blanket...
...Duke of Windsor, wearing a checkered topcoat, stooped to pet a Cuban Chihuahua while visiting the battleship Texas at Houston. The dog bit the Duke. "I think it must have been the coat," said the victim. "It's a bit noisy, you know." Later the Duke and Duchess stole the show at New Orleans' Mardi gras, especially at the carnival when the Duke bowed low and the Duchess curtsied to the floor (see cut) before King Rex and his Queen...
...were the Simpson Jewelry Company at 1 Brattle Square and Derby Jeweler, Inc. on Massachusetts Avenue. At both places this student asked if the one and a half carat diamond were genuine. He was described as being 25 years old, 5 ft, 11 inches tall, and wearing a dark topcoat...