Battle Gear: This is one hat that...

Battle Gear: This is one hat that won’t go out in the rain. The homburg worn by Britain’s cigar-smoking World War II Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the hat with his initials embossed in gold inside, sold in London for $11,750 to an unidentified telephone bidder, said Christie’s auction house. Photos of Churchill hefting the homburg on wartime diplomatic visits are among his best-known images.

Judge Not: Donald Trump’s sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, says the legal system needs to get tough with muggers, or elderly residents like her mother will have to continue to live in a “climate of fear.” Mary Trump, 79, was beaten and robbed last month. “I’m speaking now as a daughter and not as a federal judge,” Barry said in Newark, N.J. “Thugs who brutalize elderly people should be punished severely.”

Kudos: President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe received India’s $60,000 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding and urged New Delhi to continue its fight for a non-racist South Africa. Other recipients included Mother Teresa and violinist Yehudi Menuhin. . . . Last week Queen Elizabeth II made Saudi Prince Khalid ibn Sultan a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. He is commander of Arab and Islamic forces in the Persian Gulf War. The title is honorary.

Gimme a Large: The next star among the bright lights of Broadway is positively bubbly, definitely big and already worth $3 million. Introducing: a four-story-high Coca-Cola bottle. It pops its cap, produces a straw and its electronic “liquid” is drained in about 30 seconds. The 55-ton motor-driven mega-sign, with 13,000 light bulbs and a mile of neon, is tucked in a warehouse awaiting its New Year’s Eve debut on Times Square as part of the area’s redevelopment.