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Naturally being blue you would like it.
Then came the visit of the British queen on the Brittania, and I was invited to dine with her on the Brittania. There were 55 people invited, and I wrote down the time that the consul-general told me, I thought, and my secretary thought she wrote down the right time from the invitation, and we both wrote it down wrong and so I came a half an hour late. They were already seated at dinner.
What does one do in a situation like that?
I don't know. I just walked in and sat down, but I didn't really intend to do it. It was not my intention. The boat is like a tiny British liner. She looks as pretty as her pictures. She was wearing one of her prettiest tiaras made of what looked like diamond lace and a green gress with embroidered sleeves and a diamond necklace with diamonds the size of eggs.
They were real, I take it.
Real, yes. And the mixture of people was fascinating. There was everybody from Bill Walton to the president of Columbia
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