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Wishing to take a vacation incognito, Britain's popular ex-Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disguised himself, passed through London's thronged Victoria Station, entrained for the Riviera (see p. 21) unrecognized. His disguise: a brown felt hat instead of curled-brim black Homburg...
...hours after handsome Anthony Eden resigned as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Glasgow haberdashers marked down the Eden-style black Homburg from ?1 to four shillings. In London's West End, however, it still held its own. "It has too much character," said one Mayfair hatter, "to be blown off by a political breeze...
...Italy! Down with Musso!" Members of the Cabinet, including Mr. Eden, came & went repeatedly without taking more than the merest notice of the crowd before the official residence of the Prime Minister. Even after Hero Eden had actually handed in his letter of resignation, he only raised his black Homburg hat once or twice, diffidently. To a few friends waiting for him on the steps of the Foreign Office, Anthony Eden said: "It's all over...
...since. Dinner in the Master' lodgings, the Master tall gray quiet man, professor in an antique tongue. Master's wife good company. Some talk about new parietal rules, plans for House dances. Back to the Attic a little after nine and an hour reading Kleist's "Prinz Friederich von Homburg" with text in one hand and Langenscheidts "Deutsch-Englisch" in the other. Listen to the radio and desultory talk with room-mates till...
Clad in a blue topcoat and a black Homburg hat and carrying a horn-rimmed monocle and a gleaming Malacca stick, Captain Cullen sniffed and snorted: "This talk about insolent stewards is just a lot of g- -d hooey and lies. Why, there was not a steward logged [fined] except a couple for getting drunk. And I'd log 'em if there were any reason...