Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Study in Underpants. Last year Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley impressed himself on the folks back home by posing for photographs with his gavel about to descend on the bald dome of New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator H. Alexander Smith; this year New Jersey's 320-Ib. Democratic Representative T. James Tumulty made a big impression by posing in his underpants (TIME...
Painter Gerassi is a heavy-muscled, egg-bald man of 55 who talks with staccato forcefulness in a thick accent-English was the last of many languages he picked up. Raised in Spain, he first resolved to be a philosopher, went to Germany to study. "I wanted to find out the sense of life," he recalls. "I found out you don't find out anything but speculations...
Fighting Marshal. Beneath all the bombast the marshals had a message for the Soviet people. In its most pointed form it was delivered by egg-bald Marshal Ivan Konev, a figure of growing significance in the shifting Soviet scene. Pravda last week gave special prominence to an article by him. Konev was a Bolshevik before he was a soldier, but he is a fighting marshal who has earned his decorations the hard way and has the respect of the Russian people...
Tough-minded Textileman Royal Little, 58, says he got bald the hard way: by "butting into stone walls." As boss since 1928 of Textron, Inc., he built up a $55 million firm on the theory that what the textile industry needed was a fully integrated company that produced everything from the staple to such finished goods as negligees, blouses and bedspreads. Until 1948 the theory worked well, and Textron prospered with the rest of the textile industry, but when the industry went into its postwar slump Textron's profits turned to losses. Little found out that in the textile...
...like an explosion in a flour factory." There was Robert Cannafax, who would pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg when his game went bad. Everyone knew how to sneeze, scratch, or reach for a towel just as his rival was shooting. But few could imitate bald Onofrio Lauri, who was often accused of polishing his pate and reflecting the table lights into his opponents' eyes...