Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to look far for someone to succeed W. Stuart Symington as Secretary of the Air Force. The logical choice was the man who headed the President's Air Policy Commission in 1947 and produced the report recommending a 70-group Air Force. Last week the President nominated bald, sharp-eyed Thomas Knight Finletter for the job. Never a flyer himself, 56-year-old Tom Finletter comes from a socialite Philadelphia family and is a Manhattan corporation lawyer, a United World Federalist, an avid student of history and an expert in international economics. When appointed to the Air Commission...
Pooh-Bah: Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative...
...GREAT BALD...
...Bald, pale Mario Scelba, Italy's tough Minister of the Interior, had studied a Cominform directive found by his police on a Red courier en route to France from Bulgaria. Scelba was convinced that French and Italian Communists were under orders to launch a spring offensive. One day last week he warned his fellow ministers: "We are in an emergency." He asked and received extraordinary power to keep public order, including reinforcements for the police and a ban on all public and factory meetings...
...best male performance and radio's Mercedes McCambridge, playing her first screen part, took the Oscar for the best job by a supporting actress. The Academy voted the best-actress award (her second) to Olivia de Havilland for playing the jilted wallflower in The Heiress, and recognized a bald Dean Jagger's retread adjutant in Twelve O'Clock High as the best male supporting performance...