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  • n  a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back

  • Harry Aloysius McGuire wore the first coonskin coat ever seen on the campus of Notre Dame University, edited the student Scholastic, was suspended for burlesquing the prefect of .
  • If the Chicago delegates have proof positive that the Legend is a better vote-getter than the Liability, they mightjust possiblyrebel and nominate the man in the coonskin .
  • A more imaginative friend clapped a coonskin cap on Kefauver's head at a luncheon rally.
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  • Fess Parker in New York Times
    There was a dinner in Washington honoring a retiring assistant secretary of defense,Mr. Parker told me. "I was invited. I walked in wearing that coonskin cap and buckskin outfit."

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