6.The first Nobel Prize awarded that year, the banquet after the ceremony full of mysterious and charming colors: whitetie the banner of men, dressed in tuxedo; President is wearing a tuxedo, wearing jewelry.
8.A rare White House black-tie evening featured buffalo for dinner, music by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and dancing with several dozen luminaries from the worlds of politics, history, writing, diplomacy and sports.
10.Brandrick was left with little more than the black suit, white shirt and red tie that he had planned to be buried in when it emerged a year later that his suspected "tumor" was no more than a non-life threatening inflammation of the pancreas.
