Word: homburger
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...Bonn's Wahn Airport. He shaved with a safety razor, an old-fashioned brush and lather. While he breakfasted on orange juice, boiled eggs and coffee, his secretary typed out the statement. When the pilot reported the ground temperature, Dulles chose a suitable ensemble (blue double-breasted suit, Homburg), being careful, as he dressed, to tuck his statement in his breast pocket. Landing in Bonn, Dulles looked tanned and completely relaxed, ready for work...
...moment Her Britannic Majesty's First Minister leaned on his gold-headed walking stick and waved his grey Homburg at the welcoming crowd. With the caution of great age, he stepped to the ground to be greeted by Vice President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Then he shuffled to a battery of microphones and, as he read from typewritten notes, the Churchillian tones sounded strong and clear...
...presently considering a hoodlum role in The Desperate Hours, a Midwestern crime story which he tried to buy himself before Paramount outbid him. Nevertheless, he has not had a gat in his hand in a long time. He not only plays a wealthy Wall-Street type (complete with Homburg, furled black umbrella, Brooks Brothers suit and briefcase), but wins the hand of lissome Audrey Hepburn in Paramount's forthcoming Sabrina. In The Barefoot Contessa, recently filmed in Italy with Ava Gardner, he is a tough old movie director...
Bits of Freedom. To Dulles, this official reply missed the point. At week's end he packed his bags again, clapped on his Homburg, and flew off to London and Paris to discuss, as he put it, "some of the real problems involved in creating the obviously desirable united front." As he departed, he issued a statement which summed up his thinking with a forcefulness that would be hard for reasonable free men to resist. Said he: "This Government believes that if all the free people who are threatened now unite against the threat, it can be ended...
...last week, a Washington-bound airliner put down at Memphis and Lawyer Samuel Sears, a ruddy, pipe-smoking Bostonian with a grey Homburg, natty bow tie and wispy mustache, stepped out for a breath of fresh air. A reporter rushed up to him asking: "Pardon me, sir, but are you the Australian ambassador...