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...Cowboy Glenn toured the state with a blaring sound truck, lost. Second time (1942), he crooned and strummed his way around on a big black horse named "Nig," lost again. This year, after working in a San Francisco war plant, he turned up in Idaho in a sedate grey Homburg and a conservative business suit. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...platform, shaking hands with the glittering stars, even Tom Dewey became so excited by the tumult & shouting that, in an unusually prankish gesture, he tossed his grey Homburg a full ten feet into the hands of a waiting bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Crucial Week | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Campaign by Ear. Tom Dewey was meticulously groomed, changing suits daily - brown, blue, grey pinstriped, al ways single-breasted. Always, when he alighted, the grey Homburg was in his hand. Never did he seem flustered. And in midweek the added confidence he drew from the Maine results (see Elections) showed visibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Listening Campaign | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...clowning act is performed with a guitar-strumming stooge against a shiny backdrop that looks like the cover of a Pocket Books mystery. Tin Tan himself wears a cock's tail in his flat black homburg, a knee-length purple velvet jacket, a steel watch chain hanging below the knees of his balloon trousers which narrow at the ankles. He is forever fondling and fussing over his mike, always starts off by jabbering such gibberish as Viriviriviri-virividee, V por Victori. At intervals he tosses in his own crazy versions of mariachi tunes, Russian melodies, Italian arias; but mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Authentic Pachuco | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...London cabbie cocked his white head and his Homburg toward the sky. The dawn hid a mighty lot of bombers, and their extra thunder told him: "Something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Invasion: 16229: Jun. 12, 1944 | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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