Word: balding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clothing smoking and his coal afire, Driver Wilson departed in bewilderment. Firemen later extinguished the blaze. By the smoldering bed they found the charred bodies of two Negro men, one Negro woman, all devout disciples of Harlem's bald little Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, May 27, March n, et ante...
Three onetime champions and a group of able youngsters, however, supplied enough upsets and excitement. Chipper Jimmy Caras, always best on birthdays, celebrated his 25th by blanking Joe Procita, 125-to-0. Bland, bald-headed Bennie Allen, three-time champion, dropped one ball after another into the pockets, gave the boisterous onlookers their greatest thrill by making a straight run of 125. Finally, after two weeks of round-robin, the winner: Caras...
...week a remarkable old man resigned as finance committee chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. He will be succeeded in this No. 2 job in the biggest industrial enterprise in the U. S. by a remarkable young man just half his age. The old man was William J. Filbert, bald, popeyed, secretive master of Steel's endless columns of statistics. Presumably he was 70, Steel's compulsory retirement age, since it was inconceivable that Mr. Filbert would quit voluntarily. One of the few ascertainable dates in Mr. Filbert's virtually dateless career is 1881, the year...
Another explanation for Mr. Hutton's resignation might have been that as an anti-New Deal publicist he was sometimes misunderstood. His suggestion that Big Business "gang up" was interpreted as a bald plan to gang Franklin D. Roosevelt (TIME, Dec. 2). Though his sentiments were personal, the name Hutton has been linked to General Foods since he became chairman in 1923 and as a goodwill asset has lately shrunk in value...
Grateful Gloversville honored its stout, bald, walrus-mustached benefactor with a life-size statue of which Mr. Littauer, as a believer in useful monuments, disapproves on principle. Six years ago he established the Littauer Foundation which supports research into pneumonia, cancer, heart disease...