Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here." The accused's square shoulders sagged; then, without a word, his blue eyes glistening, he did a smart about-face and walked away from the bench. Beside him, his bald, hawk-nosed attorney whirled in the other direction, his face flushed. "No statements. Let's get out of here," rasped the usually helpful Emile Zola Berman as reporters swarmed about them. "No statements," the marine echoed dully. He spread his hands helplessly before...
...outdid yourselves. The cover portrait looks exactly like Stevenson, from his bald pate down to his tiny chin. Congratulations to TIME and James Chapin...
Died. Maurice-Edmond Sailland, 83, bald, rotund (220 Ibs.) Gallic gourmet better known by his self-styled title Prince Curnonsky, founder (1928) of France's famed Académie des Gastronomes and head of 27 gastronomical societies, prolific culinary writer (France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes); after accidentally falling from a window of his fourth-floor apartment; in Paris...
...whose office won the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize for its thankless task of finding "permanent solutions" to the plight of some 350,000 anti-Communist refugees in Europe and Asia; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in Geneva, Switzerland. Prewar editor (1929-33) of the big Amsterdam Telegraaf, bald, brilliant Dr. Goedhart became a top-ranking resistance leader, later (1944) moved to London as Minister of Justice in the Dutch government in exile. Lately embittered by apparent indifference to the plight of the "hardcore" refugees, Goedhart threatened to resign, crying, "It is a scandal that 65,000 refugees...
Died. Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King, U.S.N., 77, tall, frosty, wartime (1942-45) Chief of Naval Operations, 1941 commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet; of a heart ailment; in Kittery, Me. Before the dust had cleared from the Pearl Harbor debris, President Roosevelt summoned bleak, bottle-bald Ernie King from the Navy's second ocean-where he had directed the Atlantic's undeclared war of 1941-to lay down a massive plan of defense and counterattack in the blazing Pacific. ("When they get into trouble," barked King, "they always send for the sons of bitches...