Word: homburger
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...Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent take off last week on a round-the-world good-will tour. As the Prime Minister's limousine pulled up at the airstrip, they broke through the rope barriers in a rush of friendly enthusiasm. St. Laurent, politely doffing his black Homburg, plunged into the crowd, shaking hands and alternately bidding goodbye and au revoir as he worked his way toward the plane...
...frosty Pennsylvania stadium, he ate an alfresco box supper with 9,000 (see below). South of the border for one day, he offered a champagne toast to the President of Mexico. In New Orleans he took on a flaming sunburn, in Kansas City a stockman's Homburg. In Abilene he picked cornflowers from his mother's garden and gave an old girl friend a resounding and public kiss. Through it all. Ike seemed to be having the time of his life, and the cheering crowds seemed to say to opposition politicos of both parties that...
...went on to Washington as ambassador and there, as in Moscow, maintained what she called "a certain aloofness" toward the cold war. Her soft-colored saris and blue-tinted grey hair gradually grew as familiar at diplomatic conclaves as the male diplomat's dark suit and black Homburg. In 1952 she returned to India and ran for Parliament, was overwhelmingly elected...
Died. Carl Ritter, 83, urbane hotelman-host to six decades of European kings and U.S. millionaires; in his plush Park Hotel at Homburg, Germany. Proud owner of the world's most fashionable hideaway from its opening in 1883 until the outbreak of World War I, Host Ritter toured the capitals of Europe recruiting royal guests (e.g., Kaiser Wilhelm II, Britain's Edward VII, Russia's Czar Alexander III). The 150-room Park Hotel became a billet for victorious U.S. Army brass (including Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius Clay) after World War II, last year returned to Ritter...
...heretics, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler, had rebelled against the Freudian tenets. In this crisis, six loyal disciples solemnly undertook to uphold the straight gospel, and to each, Freud presented a jewel. That was in 1912, and of the select six, only one survives: Ernest Jones, 74, a spry, Homburg-hatted little Welshman* whom Freud called the greatest psychoanalyst in the English-speaking world...