Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving on to dedicate Montana's Hungry Horse Dam, where he donned a safety hat labeled "Harry," Truman warned his audience: "All of you who are here today better go over and take another look at this dam, because if the Republicans win this election it will be a long time before you see another structure of this kind." This statement brought forth from the "Truth Squad" the assertion that the Republican-controlled 80th Congress had appropriated more money for Hungry Horse than had the Democratic-controlled 79th Congress. Replied Eisenhower: "Anyone who thinks I am not interested...
...Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England, the Duke of Windsor entered the autumn tournament with a handicap of 16. Wearing a waterproof hat that looked like a combination sou'wester and deerstalker, the Duke shot a 98. Next day, on the eleventh hole, he tore up his card, told club officials: "My game's so bad it's no good going on. It's all right to be playing like this in France . . . ordinary hurdles. But this course is the Grand National of golf courses...
...magazine Air Force appealed for the return to Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg of his $50 uniform cap, which he lost at a luncheon in Detroit in August. The general's hat was "unique and unmistakably identifiable and encrusted clear around with silver lightning." The "overzealous souvenir hunter . . . cannot brag about it to friends, nor hang it proudly over the mantel, nor wear it . . ." If the hat is returned, "the general is willing to forgive and forget with no questions asked...
During rehearsals, blonde Comedienne Eve Arden kept her hat on because she felt "like all those lights are drying up my brains." After four days of it, she got the feeling "of not being able to take a deep breath." Fortunately, not a bit of her uneasiness showed up last week in the first TV film of Our Miss Brooks (Fri. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Despite the secret agonies of the star, Our Miss Brooks had a smooth professional look and seemed to have made the move to TV without dropping a pun or a pratfall...
...long before the public ever saw her first movie, The Outlaw. In its day, too, RKO has been known for making both its audiences and its stockholders happy. As releasing agent for Walt Disney productions, it has gladdened the hearts of both; and such RKO-produced pictures as Top Hat and Kitty Foyle have clicked with both critics and box office...