Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hochschild, called "Don Mauricio" by his well-wishers, is a big, bland man of 62 with a big, bald head, heavy brown eyebrows. He eats hugely, spills cigar ashes on his stomach, claims a stock of 2,000 jokes in various languages. He is charitable to nuns, priests, refugee Jews, and likes to hand out expensive Havana cigars as if they were calling cards...
...Parade. The Congressman's one best chance to peek into the workings of the powerful little group that runs the Navy comes when the admirals seek funds. In wartime Congress invariably writes this group a blank check, and so the lean, bald top dog, Admiral Ernest J. King, conceded, while contending that the money is spent carefully ("I'm a taxpayer, too"). But at committee hearings the people's representatives can give the admirals some uneasy moments...
Slosson, a thin little man, sharply blue-eyed, appropriately billiard-bald, plays with a cue he bought for 50? in Louisville in 1874. He figures it has been re-tipped at least 500 times and had perhaps 40 leather covers on its butt. With it he won the straight-rail world championship from Maurice Daly in 1877, the Champions Game title from Maurice Vigneaux in 1882, the cushion-caroms title in 1884, the 14.2 balkline championship in 1887, the 18.1 balkline title from Jacob ("Wizard") Schaefer in 1888, the 18.2 balkline title from Willie Hoppe...
Louis Children's Hospital. Paul is a cheerful little Negro boy with an I.Q. of 107 and a physical age of 70. His skin is wrinkled, he is nearly bald. Thick veins snake across his temples and the backs of his hands. His fingernails are dry and broken...
Pierre Monteux rules the San Francisco Symphony like a good-natured, grandfatherly but absolute Czar. Only one person dares dispute his authority: Mme. Monteux, who broods over the symphony with a maternal passion that is sometimes embarrassing. Not long ago all the bald-headed musicians in the orchestra suddenly blossomed out with toupees. In this connection, Mme. Monteux's name was widely mentioned. Everyone agreed the effect was interesting...