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...moment Douglas MacArthur entered the House chamber, Dean Acheson hung his black Homburg on the rack outside the President's door. After a 20-minute huddle with the President over foreign policy, he left. Then, as if to make it pointedly clear that he was not watching his TV set, Harry Truman emerged, climbed into his car ten minutes earlier than usual and drove to Blair House for lunch. Whether he sneaked a peek at television there was a well-kept secret. (Acheson succumbed to temptation, caught the tail end of MacArthur's speech...
Manhattan's Federal Judge Harold Medina, one of the notable jurists in Dallas for the opening of Southern Methodist University's new Legal Center (see EDUCATION) doffed his formal grey Homburg for a blue-green five-gallon Stetson ("I feel like a damn fool in the thing"), then climbed aboard an old stagecoach provided by his host the Dallas Bar Association, rode out to take in his first rodeo and outdoor barbecue at a nearby ranch party...
Resplendent in a black tailored topcoat, carefully-tilted Homburg and what Missouri-born Harry Truman likes to call "striped pants," the new Spanish ambassador arrived at the White House last week to present his credentials to the President of the U.S. Harry Truman, who bitterly dislikes Franco, did not dally with Ambassador Don Jose Felix de Lequerica y Erquiza. The whole ceremony took less than three minutes, including two handshakes and an exchange of formal greetings. But for all the hustle, Don Jose managed to have his say. Said...
...plane landed, the familiar bony face, the hawk nose, the mustache, the Homburg, were framed in a cabin window. The plane, the President's Independence, rolled to a stop at the Military Air Transport Service terminal in Washington, and the most controversial figure in international politics came down the ramp. It was Christmas week, and the U.S. Secretary of State had flown in a few hours from snowy Brussels into the freezing pre-dawn of Washington. Still standing, in effect, between two continents, he shook hands with a greeter. How was the weather in Europe? "The weather was very...
...founded his Nationalist Party (estimated membership: 1,000) in the '205, strutted the streets of Puerto Rican villages clad in flowing cape and Homburg. After President Roosevelt's visit in 1934, he shrieked: "Cowards, you should have received Roosevelt with bullets but you greeted him with flowers." In 1936 one of his terrorists assassinated the island police chief. As a result of the murder, Albizu was arrested for conspiring to overthrow