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Unquestionably, in the deadly give and take of the cold war, the high score for the year belongs to Russia. And unquestionably, the Man of the Year was Russia's stubby and bald, garrulous and brilliant ruler: Nikita Khrushchev...
...handsome if you can, witty if you must, but be agreeable even if it kills you." So goes the maxim that often uplifts the front page of the most determinedly bigtime, small-town weekly newspaper in the U.S.: Grit, published in Williamsport, Pa. (pop. 46,000), by a bald, conservative optimist named George Lamade. By being aggressively agreeable, plain-looking, plain-spoken Grit has built up a national circulation of nearly 900,000 in 48 states, this month will celebrate its 75th birthday as the paper "that rings the joy bells of life...
Died. Sir Alfred Zimmern, 78, egg-bald British political scientist, historian, longtime (1930-44) Oxford professor of international relations, who helped draft the League of Nations Covenant and shape the framework of UNESCO; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Avon, Conn...
LABOR That's My Boy Charged with embezzling the $4,650 he collected on the sale of two Cadillacs owned by the Teamsters Union, paunchy, balding Dave Beck Jr., 37, last week watched a doubtful character witness speak up for him in Seattle's King County courthouse. The witness: paunchy, bald Dave Beck Sr., lame-duck head of the union, who shouted: "I will testify to the truth for my boy. My boy has done no wrong. If anything has been done wrong, it is me. I ordered him to sell the cars; there was nothing wrong about...
...water-cooler, arid to suffer in silence one of the subtler horrors of war: Lieut. Commander Clinton T. Nash (Fred Clark), a sort of sugar-coated Queeg. This pill is secretly known, to those who have to take him. as "Marblehead" ("And not just because he is bald"). In civilian life Marblehead was a broker (Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Beane), and he got himself a direct commission "without the corrupting effect of any intervening naval training." He compensates for this deficiency by soaking his gold braid in brine whenever the green seems to be wearing off, and by declaring loud...