Word: homburger
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...equipped with desks, typewriters and mimeograph machine, Adlai Stevenson, wearing a most un-Western Homburg. set out last week to conquer the West. This is a critical battleground, for the ten states which Stevenson plans to visit have 83 electoral votes, and though nine of the states went Democratic in 1948 most of them were very close...
...hour before, dingy Caxton Street was alive with London housewives, camera-clicking tourists and Whitehall office workers out for midmorning tea. Fierce, embarrassingly fierce, feminine cheers greeted the handsome bridegroom as he arrived, looking middle-aged-blithe and debonair in a dark blue suit, famed Homburg hat and white carnation. "He's not every girl's cup of tea," go iped one feminine appraiser. "Divorced, dear, and fifty-five." Her companion tattled back: "But he's so distinguished...
...hour or so later, at the Justice Department Building, Howard McGrath walked out of his office, his Homburg pulled forward, his double-breasted grey flannel rumpled, a glazed look in his eyes. His voice quavered as he talked to the waiting press; no tears rolled down his cheeks, but his eyes brimmed. Why was he fired? "I guess my usefulness came to an end." What advice did he have for his successor? "A fine man ... I have suggested that he ought to supply himself with an asbestos suit...
State Department employees will still live behind the Hershey Bar Curtain in the expensive new apartment house fronting on the Rhine (TIME, Dec. 3). Though High Commissioner John J. McCloy is giving up his diesel train and his million-dollar mansion in Bad Homburg, he will keep his big house in Berlin. State has built new houses beside the Rhine for McCloy and five top assistants...
...field, in the Home Office or in one of the Service's special schools in Slavic, Middle Eastern or Oriental languages, the third secretary gets his diplomatic education. He also learns that his hat should be a black Homburg or a bowler from Lock, his tie subdued, his shoes black. It helps to have a rich wife. For the guidance of young Third Secretary John Bull and his wife, an official in the Foreign Office service four years ago wrote a confidential manual of procedure. It was distributed, but hastily withdrawn. Sample advice...