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Last week, a jovial 14-car motorcade, containing all but the U.S. and Egyptian delegates, and spearheaded by New York's handwringing, homburg-hatted Grover Whalen, set out for Long Island to seek another temporary home...
...when he arrived in Virginia next day by train. There was a cold drizzle. Winston Churchill pulled a short raincoat over his striped trousers and black coat and got into an open car, gripping a gold-headed cane, puffing a cigar, grinning at the crowds from under his black Homburg. He raised his hand in the familiar V-sign. His old friend Ike Eisenhower was with him. As their car swished along the wet streets, the bells of St. James's Church pealed out God Save the King...
...customers at the Fort Shelby Hotel bar in Detroit recognized an old face. James Francis Dewey, looking like a billiken in a black Homburg hat, was back in town, this time to settle the General Motors fight...
Finally the Governor showed up in person on Staten Island, where his administration is starting a $5 million project for converting Army barracks into temporary housing for veterans. Wearing his inevitable Homburg with the preciseness of a toy soldier, he accepted an honorary membership in the A.F. of L.'s United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, thereupon took six hammer strokes to drive the first nail into a two-by-four. The resulting picture looked for all the world like candidate-with-Indian or candidate-with-dead-fish, only a little better...
...Piece. Last week, hot from Le Matin's old presses, came the first 50,000-copy edition of a new four-page tabloid, the Paris Post. Directing the operations were: 1) Editor Paul Scott Mowrer, dean of the writing Mowrers (others: brother Edgar Ansel and son Richard); 2) Homburg-hatted General Manager Robert Pell, late of the State Department. Their assignment: to publish a newspaper wholly independent of the New York Post but voicing the same New Dealish views...