Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles southwest of Washington, he was basking in a hot sun on plush, lush Jupiter Island, Fla., a guest in the vacation home of his good friend Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon. Symbolic items in the Secretary of State's baggage: 1) a flop-brimmed straw hat that "cost about $1.98," and 2) a Brooks Brothers shirt box stuffed with paperback mysteries...
...bathed, shaved, read the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post (the New York Times and Herald Tribune were brought in later), began to maneuver through an Ellery Queen. Breakfast was at 8 o'clock on the patio, with Dulles decked out in sports shirt, slacks and the hat. At 9:30 Army Captain Edward J. Kamin, an internal medicine specialist who had flown down in the presidential Columbine with Dulles and wife Janet from Washington, gave his patient a checkup. At 10:30 Dulles' capable personal assistant Joseph N. Greene called the State Department, got a 15-minute...
...infield is the best around. Murtaugh can play Ted Kluszewski (if his back heals,) Dick Stuart if they can find a hat to fit him), or Rocky Nelson (Mr. Minor League) at first. Bill Mazeroski has no peer at second base and with Dick Groat, a steady .300 hitter, they give the Pirates a DP combination second only to the Reds.' Don Hoak is no Frank Thomas, but you can't have everything...
Thoreau gathered most of the specimens between 1850 and 1856, when he "traveled widely in Concord." After friends berated him for the beaten appearance of his hat, which he used to carry the plants after he picked them, he said, "It was not so much my hat as my botany...
When designing, Sally Victor makes no sketches, works directly with hat bodies and materials. She sometimes takes a week to create a single hat, but under pressure can design as many as 30 hats in a day. For the 2,000 she turns out a year, she gets ideas from everywhere. She got her 1940 "Flemish sailor" hat. which is still widely copied, from the tight-fitting, brimmed hat in a 15th century painting by Roger van der Weyden. She designed a line of successful "chessmen" hats after seeing a show of old chessmen at New York's Metropolitan...