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...impressed the Ambassador as "a strong mind . . . sharp, shrewd and above all . . . wise . . . exceedingly kindly and gentle. . . . A child would like to sit in his lap and a dog would sidle up to him." Now Mr. Davies found his old acquaintance as amiable as ever, still wearing a military tunic and boots, but looking healthier, a trifle stouter. Certainly, said Joe Davies later, "he doesn't look like a man who is worried...
...studio of her trainer, a Svengalian Italian ballet master named Vincenzo Celli. He ruthlessly analyzes her shortcomings, puts her through an hour's workout that would wilt a professional athlete. By noon she is on the Metropolitan stage, dressed in tights and a black velvet tunic, ready for hours of rehearsal. With scarcely time for a cup of tea and a cat nap, she is in her dressing room two hours before curtain time. By the time her performance is over, Markova is ready...
...died, and the handsome young Chiang Kai-shek assumed at least the military tunic of the great revolutionist. Mei-ling Soong met him. At that time she did not actively concern herself with his politics; she heard how he broke with Moscow and she heard whispers of the way his secret societies killed off the Reds. She found herself being courted and liking it, and before long the soldier had followed Mei-ling's formidable mother to Japan to make her agree to a distasteful match (because he had been divorced and was not a Christian...
...Military police on duty at a Washington, D.C. jitterbug dance hall last week were so shocked they could only stare. Before their regimented eyes swaggered an enlisted soldier in a $150 zoot uniform. The tunic shaped in from broad, padded shoulders. The form-fitting coat flopped well below the hands that hung from leg-of-mutton sleeves. A white belt held the trousers chest-high over a cocoa-colored shirt and white tie. Above the ankles were ten-inch hemstitched stuff cuffs. A zoot watch chain swung low from the right pants pocket...
...After Jimmy Jr. went into the Army Air Forces last year, Jimmy Sr.'s worst fear was that his son would beat him into action. Again in service as a major, but on desk duty, Jimmy Sr. pinned the Army wings on his son's tunic when Jimmy Jr. was commissioned. In his emotion, Father Doolittle forgot to return the new pilot's salute. Said Jimmy Sr., walking blindly away: "I feel like a heel...