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...Homburgs. In Washington, Harry Truman, holding his grey Stetson in hand, reached out in warm greeting as Churchill stepped out of the presidential Independence after a flight from New York. It was the first time Truman, 67, and Churchill, 77, had met as heads of government since the Potsdam Conference in July 1945. Close behind the Prime Minister came his heir-apparent in the Conservative Party, Homburged, mustached Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who soon was chatting with Homburged, mustached Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After introductions and speeches, Churchill and Truman climbed into the President's Lincoln...
Clean Getaway. In Phoenix, after William Pilling told police that he got off fairly easily when a burglar stole only $6 and a Stetson hat, he discovered that the thief had also taken a bath, left a ring around...
Manhattan's Federal Judge Harold Medina, one of the notable jurists in Dallas for the opening of Southern Methodist University's new Legal Center (see EDUCATION) doffed his formal grey Homburg for a blue-green five-gallon Stetson ("I feel like a damn fool in the thing"), then climbed aboard an old stagecoach provided by his host the Dallas Bar Association, rode out to take in his first rodeo and outdoor barbecue at a nearby ranch party...
...Colorado wears a bigger Stetson or higher heels on his cowboy boots than Governor Dan Thornton, a wealthy, Texas-born cattleman who became the Republicans' last-minute candidate after the regular nominee died in mid-campaign. Even after he was safely ensconced in the state capitol in citified Denver, Thornton continued to wear the cowboy costume in which he successfully stumped the state. He often made photographers wait for pictures while he found an old brier pipe, which he never smokes but likes to wear clamped between his teeth...
John Ross kept the news under his tan Stetson and went to work. He discovered that right after the murder Kirkes had ordered his coupe repainted, though the garage man insisted it didn't need paint. That same week the big patrolman grabbed an air hose away from a service station man and cleaned out the rear compartment of his car himself. Moreover, a faint mark on the dead girl's legs looked like the pattern of a rear-compartment floor mat found only in Ford coupes. The mat in Kirkes' 1939 Ford was missing...