Word: stetson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day he landed at the Dallas airport from New York last September, shock-haired, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Walter Hendl slapped on a cowboy Stetson and accepted appointment as an honorary deputy sheriff. In the next few days he lunched with Fan Dancer Sally Rand at the Junior Chamber of Commerce, judged a beauty contest, went to a Neiman-Marcus fashion show, played jazz piano for the girls at a local prep school and lunched with the Rotarians. For jovial New Jersey-born Hendl, it was all part of his new job as conductor...
...living, Connie Hilton moves with the speed-and often the freshness-of a cowboy on the town. No "bellhop with a manicure" -as some hotelmen are scornfully labeled in the trade-Connie Hilton is a towering (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered, leatherfaced extravert who proudly wears a $100 Stetson and talks with astonishing frankness about his income (see box] and business affairs...
Luckey, a wealthy, Texas-born cattleman, had backed the Truman campaign in California almost singlehanded, had spent some $10,000 to run it. Since the campaign, he has been Harry Truman's fair-haired boy in California. Eyeing his Elks tooth, big Stetson and cowboy boots, the President had said: "Glad to see you wearing those [pointed] boots, George. They'll be good for kicking some of those fellows...
Perro Caliente (Hot Dog), near the headwaters of the Pecos River, 9,500 feet up, was just a corral and a crude ranch house in the middle of nowhere. With a Stetson on his head and a bar of chocolate in his pocket, Oppenheimer liked to ride his horse Chico 40 rugged miles in a day, exploring the Sangre de Cristo Mountains up to the peaks. In the evenings, he would nibble on canned artichoke hearts, drink fine Kirschwasser, and read Baudelaire by the light of an oil lamp. He invented an abstruse variety of tiddlywinks, played on the geometric...
When Oppenheimer was not bossing the laboratory at Los Alamos, he was dealing with military and civilian brass in Washington, and growing in personal assurance at each new contact. He acquired a new trademark. Worried about security, General Groves told Oppie that his broad-brimmed Stetson was too much hat; every spy within a mile of Union Station could spot his comings & goings. Oppie compromised on a brown porkpie (size 6 7/8|), and has worn it ever since. Physicists were not mystified when the hat appeared, uncaptioned and unexplained, on the cover of the magazine Physics Today...