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Madame Murashkina proved to be a grandmother and an engineer, a pale, thin woman of 47 with drawn-back grey hair, austerely dressed in a rough tweed suit, shapeless black hat, flat-heeled shoes and rayon stockings. With her was a smart blond translator, a huge Russian MVD guard, and two solemn Tass reporters. Everybody was at the station to meet her except Mrs. Weston. The mayor said his wife had a cold, but gossips called it a diplomatic illness. Next day, to give gossips the lie, Mayoress Weston put on her hat, went to see Murashkina at her flat...
Working with an outfit whose business it is to get its flunkies as judges on the bench, Ryan does a good job of parading around in a beautiful tweed coat hitting his cohorts, slapping women, and getting his younger brother out of trouble. Mitchum is on the side of the goodies in this production and does a good job as the clean...
Glamor in Tweed. The tournament glamor girl was Cuban-born Carola Mandel, 31, wife of wealthy Chicago Department Store Owner Leon Mandel. A skeet shooter for only three years, steady-nerved Mrs. Mandel is already right up in the big time, last month won the Open High-Over-All title at Chicago, outshooting some veteran male marksmen to do it. In Dallas, wearing her regular plaid shirt & tweed skirt, despite the heat, she won the 20-gauge (100 out of 100) and small gauge (98 out of 100) competitions, for a split of the major women's titles with...
...orchestra began playing concerts at the Berkshire summer symphonic festivals. Four years later, he became head of Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Center. At Tanglewood, students and laymen came each year to play, to listen and to learn. There they also could see their benevolent chief, wearing his favorite tweed cape, strolling along the lanes and chattering in his broken English...
...customer walked into London's famed Burberrys clothing shop one day last week and asked a clerk: "Let's see one of those waterproof tweed topcoats of yours. You know-like the King wears." Thus another sale was made by the sign of the Royal Warrant over the door: a red, gold, silver and blue Royal Coat of Arms, with the magic advertising legend, 'By Appointment Makers of Weatherproof Clothing to H.M. the King...