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...Admiral Spruance's right-hand man, Manila Embassy Counselor William S. B. Lacy, will become U.S. Ambassador to Korea, replacing Ellis O. Briggs, who will go to Peru. Coloradan Lacy, 45, worked his way up in Washington's wartime bureaucracy before joining the Foreign Service, wears a Homburg and a natty mustache, is regarded as a diplomatic comer...
...important to question her nationality, providing she's not Joe Stalin's cousin." A bit later, after a private rendezvous with Josane in his Manhattan apartment, the brand-new Brando emerged to pose for photographers in a green Tyrolean hat that suspiciously resembled a homburg, and he comported himself as if he were a rising young banker about to catch the 5:17 for the suburbs. Josane, pert with her carelessly gamin hairdo, looked a trifle moonstruck-but also like a fisherwoman sure of her catch. While in conference with his fiancee, Brando had changed the wedding date...
...week long, a sour little man in a rumpled blue suit, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, darted among the Homburg-hatted diplomats of the West and flummoxed them. France's Pierre Mendès-France was something new to postwar diplomacy. He made no effort to appear obliging, did not seem to care whether anybody liked him personally or not. He had little to bargain with except the hopes he himself had aroused by pledging his troth to Western European Union in London. Now, with all the invitations issued, the guests on hand, the church bells pealing...
...them showed a mustached international smoothie, outfitted with Homburg and umbrella, whispering mysteriously to an innocent-looking girl: "I could arrange to import for you an authentic set of secret, smuggled photographs of the new Chevrolet!" Cautioned the ad: "Beware of impostors, Continental bounders and novel approaches. The new Motoramic Chevrolets will be seen by everybody at the same time...
Hollywood has contributed a touch of the ludicrous by putting Humphrey Bogart under a homburg and trying to palm him off as a scion of the rich. Bogart is an obvious ringer in the role; you can almost see him wince as he talks about cans of "tomahto" juice...