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...style vision of pre-clinic (and pre-answering service) medicine features a graying, slightly stooped general practitioner shrugging on a topcoat and muffler in the dim morning light. His patient needs him and he is ready to help...
Their memoir has the vague, elegiac air of a wake going into its second night. With earnest triviality O'Donnell remembers J.F.K. as "the only guy I ever knew who could shave while wearing his topcoat." Powers, who refers to himself as "John's other wife," reproduces evenings spent in the White House when Jackie and the kids were out of town. There were Audrey Hepburn movies and broiled chicken dinners warmed over on a hot plate. Later, perhaps, TV and a few beers, or maybe a couple of oldies on the stereo: Body and Soul, Stardust, Stormy...
...Dynamite." To Soul Singer Ben Branch, who was to perform at a Claiborne Temple rally later that evening, King made a special request: "I want you to sing that song Precious Lord *for me-sing it real pretty." When Chauffeur Solomon Jones naggingly advised King to don his topcoat against the evening's chill, the muscular Atlantan grinned and allowed: "O.K., I will...
...once the preserve of royalty. For the occasion, Kosygin had brought along a turtleneck sweater, a quilted jacket and his own Belgian-made Herstal over-and-under shotgun. Gromyko cut a different figure: gun in hand he tramped through the fields in business suit, grey fedora and dark topcoat. Still, he proved a good shot. In any case, the forests of De Gaulle's Rambouillet chateau are well stocked for just such occasions, and it was a lot like shooting birds in a barrel. Together, the twelve-man party liquidated 263 pheasants...
...Your topcoat on your arm, I can see, is really quite the best...