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...ashore that's going ashore! All aboard that's coming aboard!" Resplendent in a white dress uniform with new, gold commodore's bars on the shoulders, Captain Ernest Wagner, 66, pulled a well-chewed cigar from his mouth to shout his time-honored warning from the end of the gangplank. Then he climbed five decks to the wing bridge adjoining the pilot house and ordered the long pitman driving arms of the 2,000-horsepower steam engine to begin turning the 35-ft.-wide red paddle wheel. American flags fluttered to port and to starboard. Decked...
...Olympiad of contradictions. There she stands, poised on the balance beam-a 4-in. strip of spruce, 16½ ft. long, 4 ft. above the padded flooring. The palms of her hands are coated with gymnasts' chalk that is as white as her uniform, as white as her face. She is an infinitely solemn wisp of a girl, 4 ft. 11 in. tall, a mere 86 Ibs.; dark circles above her cheeks; a Kean-eyed elf. Then, with no more strain than it would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing...
Turkish Yoke. The volunteers were of several sorts. The first, writes David Howarth in this wry and lively short history, consisted of officers left over from the Napoleonic wars of the previous decade. Each had at least one fine uniform, one sword and a brace of pistols. A few were what they said they had been; others actually had fought at grades several degrees below their announced ranks. A large number were simply counterfeit, like the Italian named Tassi, who said he had been Napoleon's engineer in chief but who confessed, when it became explosively clear...
...Saturday, June 26, two men-one dressed in a Purolator security-guard uniform, the other in a business suit-began making the rounds of cargo rooms at Heathrow in a Ford Granada. Their first stop was the overseas division of British Airways. There, they asked for the return of three packages of currency bound for banks abroad. The packages, they said, had been prepared improperly by Purolator. After they presented credentials that police later said were "impeccable," airline officials handed the money over. The pair moved on to the cargo strong room of British Airways' European division, where another...
...after the vast sales of his novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, tailors sought him out and begged him to accept, gratis, suits of fine gray flannel. Wilson's book had already confirmed what everybody knew-that the gray flannel suit had become the uniform of some sort of success in a tall building in New York. Wilson felt that to wear one would be to indulge in ridiculous self-advertisement. It says something about the careful, rather unimaginative Wilson, as well as about the doleful plumage of the period, that when he finally did pick...