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late 1950s, regularly wore a pork pie hat during his performances, and after his death Charles Mingus composed a musical elegy in Young's honor entitled "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat". Young's pork pie had a broader brim than seen in earlier styles but retained the definitive round, flat, creased crown.A porkpie hat was a trademark of physicist Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the World War{{nbsp}}II project that developed the atomic bomb.

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