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ROBINSON CRUSOE, USN - as told to Blake Clark by George Ray Tweed -Whittlesey House...
Before intermission, "Carousel" is a mediocre folk opera; after intermission it leaves all bounds of reason. The hero, Billy Bigelow, having committed suicide, is led off by two unidentified gentlemen in tweed suits. In spite of his protests he is taken around the front door of heaven and sent in the back way under the "mother of pearly" gates where he meets heaven's janitor dusting off stars. By now reduced to nothing more than a slushy dramatization of the maxim to live your own life regardless of what your parents were or did, "Carousel" concludes with Billy returning...
King George VI added color and dash to a tree-planting ceremony at Windsor by appearing in a new Scottish border tweed suit (three-inch redline squares against a light brown background) which cost him some 26 of his annual allotment of 48 clothing coupons. A West End tailor, moodily studying the cloth and cut, predicted that His Majesty's new ensemble would be a fashion setter...
...regular press conference (see U.S. AT WAR), the Prime Minister sat just behind and to the right of the President. As always, he was impeccably and stiffly dressed-dark blue suit, Hooverish collar, black-ribboned pince-nez, dark tie-in contrast with the President's light green tweed coat, polka...
Malta to Yalta. For his second conference of the Big Three and his ninth with Winston Churchill, the President departed from Washington shortly after his Jan. 20 inauguration. He appeared at Malta on Feb. 2 on a bright and spotless U.S. battleship. He was wearing an old-fashioned tweed...