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Washington airport was dank as any Congo rain forest. The diplomatic greeters, led by Secretary of State Christian Herter, huddled under a long blue canopy on rollers, but rain trickled down the back of the Egyptian ambassador's neck and plonked off the Homburg of the ambassador from Guinea. From a MATS Convair stepped Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba, 35, wearing his customary blue suit and brown Italian loafers. He gazed at a blue, gold-starred Congo flag that had, all too obviously, been hand-sewn that morning, and a Marine Corps band struck up Stars and Stripes Forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: Where's the War? | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

Rosemary (German). The film version of the 1957 news story that set nearly every Homburg from Hamburg to Mannheim atrembling. One of the most sought-after prostitutes in West Germany, Rosemary was mysteriously strangled with one of her own stockings, and the case implicated some VIPs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Mar. 7, 1960 | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Rosemary (German) is the film version of the 1957 news story that set nearly every homburg from Hamburg to Mannheim atrembling. One of the most sought-after prostitutes in West Germany, Rosemary was mysteriously strangled with one of her own stockings, and the case implicated some VIPs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...film starts to roll, nine shiny black Mercedes limousines roll into sight in sober single file. Whose funeral? Germany's? They roll up to an elegant hotel. Nine doors fly open, and out step nine millionaires in nine black Homburg hats. After a long day in the board room, the directors of the Insulating Materials Cartel-a cover name for a munitions trust-hurry off in sober single file to spend a long night in the bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 8, 1960 | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...French-type wines, cheese-type spreads and lettuce-type salads are OUT. ¶ A 190 SL Mercedes-Benz is IN but not so far IN as a 1916 Fierce-Arrow; waving at another Mercedes is OUT. Wearing a checkered sports cap will get your parking permit canceled; wearing a Homburg will cause comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Status at State | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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