Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they're put together that counts." The speaker drove home his point with the help of a persistent, snappily manicured forefinger while overhead towered a big-busted swing singer traced in white tempera on the vine-colored wall which goes around the Savoy. He had a bald, top-shaped head ornamented with rimless glasses. This combined with the soft-spoken, non-alcoholized manner of speaking to which he kept doggedly despite the competition of a vociferous alto saxophone gave him the air of a dignified old schoolmaster...
...history. A half-dozen others of the new crop of Senators are still in their 40s. Just 50 is New York's dogged, fair-minded Irving Ives, swept in by the Dewey landslide. Oldsters of the Group are 67-year-old Ed Martin and Vermont's bald, bespectacled Ralph Flanders, 65, a liberal-minded Republican Yankee businessman who had the support of the C.I.O. and knows his way around Washington from experience in WPB, 0PM, and the Economic Stabilization Board...
John Brophy, 45, who won handily over Edmund V. Bobrowicz, branded a Communist in Democrat's clothing by the Milwaukee Journal. A bald, chunky onetime Socialist and Progressive, Brophy became a Republican when the Progressives merged with the G.O.P. last spring...
...through the war the cases were secure-far more secure than the Polish Government-in-exile. As the London Government gave way to the Soviet-dominated Warsaw regime, Dr. Waclaw Babinski, precise and mustached, gave way to Dr. Alfred Fiderkiewicz, bald and pint-sized, as Polish Minister in Ottawa...
...Able, bald Everett Needham Case four years ago became a college president at 41; last week his kid brother, James Herbert Case Jr., made the grade the day before he turned 40. Jim Case took over at small, 159-year-old Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., 300 miles southwest of Brother Ev's Colgate. Chief speaker at the inaugural: Brother...