Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...
Cerebral. In crossing the wide Atlantic, the Minsky strip-act has undergone a subtle sea change. There are few, if any, bumps and grinds in the French version, and no unseemly cries of "Take it off!" from rows of bald heads. "The French," explains the Crazy Horse's Scottish dance director, "are cerebral. They have to have something to think about." Some of the thinking variations now going on in Paris : a drunken bride takes off her clothing in desultory fashion as she awaits her new husband; a strip-quiz in which each correct answer gives the audience participant...
Responsible doctors continued to pooh-pooh Kelvin's or anyone else's hair restorer. Kelvin says he has not tried Roniacol pills on his own bald head...
...expectant tingling raced over thousands of shiny pates last year when Glasgow's Dr. John Kelvin, 53, reported that two patients had grown hair on their bald heads after taking tablets he had prescribed for cramps (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954)- Possible explanation for the growth: the drug (Roniacol) improved circulation of the scalp by its vasodilating (artery-widening) action. No one was more excited than a Manhattan businessman with a full head of hair: Lynn Robert Akers, 35, president of 21 Akers Hair and Scalp Clinics scattered throughout the U.S. He promptly flew to Glasgow, offered Dr. Kelvin...
...surprising Trendex rating victory over Milton Berle, he was the first entertainer to accomplish the feat in all Berle's years on television. Silvers followed his win with a similar victory over Martha Raye. Last week, to prove it was no accident, he beat Uncle Miltie again. Bald, horn-rimmed Phil Silvers, 43, has been near the show-business top for years (as in Broadway's hit musicals, High Button Shoes and Top Banana}, but until his TV Phil Silvers Show (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS), he had never quite scored a national success. He is still bitter...