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...grandmothers. They basked happily as his performances washed over them: folk songs, show tunes and his own arrangements of such classics as Debussy's Clair de Lime and Grieg's Concerto, most of which he played with artfully simplified fingerwork in the frillier runs. For a topper, he opened up his laryngitic baritone in a perennial favorite of the middleaged, September Song. When it was all over, he dangled his feet over a corner of the stage, signed his pictures, shook hands and accepted embraces from some of the more grandmotherly...
Adlai Stevenson, at the final turn of his world tour, put down in London for two weeks of sightseeing, partygoing, talks with high officials, and quiet days of writing in the English countryside. In rented morning dress ($5.88) and topper ($1.12), Stevenson bustled off to a Buckingham Palace garden party, met Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret, with whom he had a "delightful conversation." An enthusiastic patter of applause came from the British press, including a left-handed compliment from the Manchester Guardian that he was not at all like the movie-type American...
Died. Roland Young, 65, veteran London-born cinemactor (Topper, Ruggles of Red Gap), whose clipped moustache, clipped accent and acidly debonair style made him a comic stand-by of the U.S. screen for more than two decades; in Manhattan...
...from his passenger by half an inch of plate glass and half a century of tradition. "Won't do to get too close to the passenger," explained one cabbie cheerfully. "Might cause a revolution or something." Behind rides the passenger, in a compartment as high as a silk topper (which, by regulation, it must be high enough to accommodate...
...Rector's in 1917 that Ted made his first hit in the big time, and his family the Friedmans of Circleville, Ohio, finally learned what their wandering boy was up to. And it was outside Rector's one night that Ted acquired his famous topper in a crap game with a cabbie named Mississippi. It has been part of his act ever since...