Bankers, Businessmen, Politicians, and Sportsmen.

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Marquis Milford-Haven III, 1948.

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Guy de Rothschild, 1952.

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Sherman Billingsley, owner of the legendary New York Stork Club, 1944. Signalling to his assistants while sitting down with patrons, drinking his usual Coca Cola:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/07/r ... millt.html
http://www.stork-club.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B81xdvNxeg4&





Five fingers spread out -> "The music is too loud."



With his hand on his tie -> "No check for this table."



With his palm up on the table -> "Bring a bottle of champagne."



Pointing down -> "Bring a round of drinks."



With his hand to his nose -> "Not important people" or "Their check is no good."



Tugging at his pocket handkerchief -> "Get them a bottle of perfume"



With hands interlocked & one thumb up -> "Get them out & don't let them in again" while sitting with some annoying patrons.

[davidhuh]

Dear Daedalus,

your pictures are amazing. This is a sequence of particular charm

I hope you are sitting on many more of those....

cheers, david

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East coast trad.

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Anglo-French billionaire financier James M. Goldsmith and his wife Maria Isabella Patina, 1954.

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New York producer Kermit Bloomgarden, 1958.

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Golfer Ben Hogan, 1950, LA.

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Desi Arnaz. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAV3bOJaQuY

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Bobby Riggs, 1940.