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Composer Jean (Finlandia) Sibelius, 87, great bald eagle of symphonic music, was named winner of the first international Wihuri Foundation music award (after Millionaire Finnish Shipowner Antti Wihuri) for "promoting the spiritual and economic work of humanity." The $21,250 prize money, added to the generous lifetime annuity he gets from a grateful Finland, should keep him puffing his beloved cigars till the end of his days...
...Australia, the rabbit is a public enemy. He nibbles the sheep ranges bald, defies traps and poison, and reproduces with devastating abandon. About the only thing he has not done is to take a gun to the human hunters, as the rabbit did in the nursery rhyme, Struwwelpeter. Thus, few Australians mourned when government anti-rabbit scientists declared biological warfare on the rabbit. They imported from South America a rabbit virus disease, myxomatosis, which kills by causing tumors, and in 1950 planted it in Australia's rabbit-infested backlands. It spread like a grass fire, killing rabbits...
...earn his keep. The journey took eight pleasant months. In Marseille he settled down to steady work in a red-shuttered studio and to a genial evening round of opera and absinthe. It is said that when admirers flocked about his cafe table to praise his work, the bald, bearded old Bohemian would blithely reply: "I don't know what you're talking about; I just arrived from the moon...
Married. Alan Nunn May, 42, bald, unrepentant ("I have no regrets") British spy, only member of the wartime Soviet atomic espionage ring (which included Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs) to regain his freedom; and Hildegarde Pauline Ruth Broda, 42, Vienna-born assistant school medical officer; he for the first time, she for the second; in Cambridge, England...
Across the jumble of benches Christie stood watching them, bald and spectacled, looking exactly like the 55-year-old, $23 a-week clerk he was. One of seven children, he had been spoiled by his mother, a talented musician, bullied by his father. Early in life sexual immaturity made him the butt of girl-friend jokes. In World War I he was wounded by a mustard-gas shell, lost his sight for five months and the power of speech for three years. Working as a clerk, he met and married Ethel Simpson, took a job as a postman...