Word: stetson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking the daily "blow for liberty"-as a concession to the years, he manfully abandoned bourbon and stogies six weeks ago -weatherbeaten Elder Statesman John Nance Garner, longtime (1903-32) Texas Congressman, two-term (1933-41) Vice President, spruced up in a new blue suit and his old battered Stetson for a misty-eyed celebration of his goth birthday. On hand for the doings: some 3,000 of the home folks in dusty Uvalde, a loyal guard of political cronies, including ex-President Harry Truman, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senator Lyndon Johnson. In fine gabby fettle, Visitor Truman hailed...
...buzzsaw voice rasped between the tarnished silver of a straggly mustache and the soiled afterthought of a goatee. The smutched, shoulder-length mane wagged damply beneath a fly-blown Stetson. "All of that and all of that." The waving arms and lying words swished briefly before gaudy posters of improbable freaks. Somehow, out of the rain-bedraggled midway of the Gratz (Pa.) Fair, a crowd gathered. It always does when the harsh, vocal magic of Colonel Lew Alter begins to turn the tip (con the rubes) into his new "Can It Be Possible?" show...
...plumage was vivid and vulgar-a sport shirt with a palm-leaf motif, sometimes a tie with a bulb-breasted nude. His Stetson sat squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster...
...French Fortnight," the art museum displayed 32 Toulouse-Lautrecs, and the local Lions, Kiwanians and Y.M.C.A. swooped down on visiting French dignitaries for a round of lunches and speeches. France's most sought-after artist, Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956), won the city by sporting a giant Stetson; Authors Pierre Daninos (The Notebooks of Major Thompson) and Louise de Vilmorin were lionized at dinner parties...
...Midwestern farmers sweated in fields of hay and ripe, yellow oats. Across the nation, the yearly harvest was under way, and despite drought in the Northeast, the worst in 35 years or more, many a U.S. farmer could agree with Fred Hill of Umatilla County, Ore. Pushing back his Stetson, lanky Farmer Hill, 44, cast an admiring eye over a field of ripened wheat and said with a grin: "The Lord's been good to us again. She's gonna be a hon ey." The Agriculture Department agreed...