Word: homburged
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Died. William Philip Simms, 75, longtime (1920-50) sartorially elegant foreign editor for Scripps-Howard newspapers, who began patrolling Europe for the United Press in 1909, frequently while wearing a Homburg, carrying gloves and a stick, campaigned through both world wars and the years between them (too old at 62 to get credentials to cover the Normandy invasion, he bummed his way across the Channel, covered it anyway); in his sleep; in Washington...
...roadside, and the heavy mist was raw and penetrating. The weather failed to daunt the 300-odd refugees gathered at the camp, and it equally failed to daunt the Vice President of the U.S. who stepped from the car, trim and neat in black shoes, black suit and black Homburg...
...entered the hall, bore down the aisle a coffin draped in Hungary's national colors, solemnly rested it before his rostrum. Chirped the Red Dean nervously, as applause filled the building: "May wars cease." After finishing his speech, he discovered that he should have hung onto his black Homburg. Some enterprising students had swiped it, later raffled it off in Durham through the sale of some 2,000 tickets at threepence apiece. Exulted one of the thieves: "For once, the Dean's name will be used to aid a worthy cause." The raffle proceeds were turned over...
...funeral the Rockefellers gathered, J.D.R. Jr. and five handsome young men wearing identical Homburg hats and an identical stamp. J.D.R. Jr. was bringing the next generation along, teaching them about thrift and the Bible-but letting them play tennis on Sundays. The brothers took their places in the philanthropies, but developed interests of their own-John III, shy like his father, is an authority on Japan; Nelson, husky, aggressive and the most public-minded, was adviser to Roosevelt on Latin America, until recently Eisenhower's Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and foreign-policy adviser; Laurance...
...more effort than it takes to sign a check. A tall (6 ft. 2 in.), setter-slim (160 Ibs.), amiable Southerner, whose high-domed head is as bare of top hair as the globe itself, he floats effortlessly through the stratosphere of world finance. He is an elegant dresser (Homburg from London's James Lock & Co., suits from Savile Row's Henry Poole), an amusing storyteller, a man of omnivorous tastes, who sums up his chief delights (besides Shakespeare) as "the four Bs-banking, baseball, Balzac and bourbon." As he makes his rounds, he speaks in an irretrievable...