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...Cartoonist Percy Crosby (Skippy) went U. S. patent No. 2,197,174 for a helmet designed to prevent brain concussions. Shaped like a Tyrolean yodeler's hat, its crown rests on powerful springs which are attached to the brim. How it works: bullet comes, crown gives, bullet is deflected, crown snaps back, war goes...
Into Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art strolled a shy young woman wearing flat shoes, high woolen socks, a dark blue slouch hat with brim pulled down, a dark blue coat. Busily unpacking Italian art masterpieces from the Golden Gate International Exposition were museum employes. Because flustered Allen Porter of the museum staff recognized equally flustered Greta Garbo, the film star saw the pictures a day before critics...
...chuckle. The spring in his step and a military posture belied his age by at least a score of years. His desk was forever a chaos of books and manuscripts and photos, but somehow the magazine came out. He would wear a brown felt hat turned up at the brim, and a dark coat...
After the crash, an "earless man" peered over the brim of a nearby gully, fled when hailed. Police rounded up suspicious characters, trapped one ''earless man" who admitted hating railroads but who had an alibi. The search went on, also, for a sot who cursed the railroads in a saloon, finally got so mad he set fire to his cap and threw it at bystanding Chinese...
Wishing to take a vacation incognito, Britain's popular ex-Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disguised himself, passed through London's thronged Victoria Station, entrained for the Riviera (see p. 21) unrecognized. His disguise: a brown felt hat instead of curled-brim black Homburg...