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Backstage at Denver's Coliseum one night last week, Dwight Eisenhower ran a hand over his bald head. "I want to be sure everything is on straight," he quipped. Then, as Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton boomed out an introduction, blue velvet curtains opened and the green Chevrolet convertible in which Ike sat rolled out on to the floor of the arena, made a half circle and came to a stop. Stepping briskly up the steps to the podium, Eisenhower began a speech which foreshadowed the kind of presidential campaign he hopes to make...
...they have dandruff, they should never wear dark blue or black suits (it shows up on the shoulders as snow-flakes). For bags under the eyes and heavy beard line, pancake make-up is prescribed, while face powder will take the shine off an oily skin or a bald head. Candidates who ordinarily wear glasses should keep them on during TV because "eyes accustomed to glasses will react unnaturally without them...
...through the rain, he turned on his heel and splashed through the thick, black mud to the outdoor platform. A solicitous aide tried to shield him with a big umbrella, but Ike brushed it aside. Then he tossed away his broad-brimmed hat, and, with rain splattering on his bald head, began his maiden political speech...
Cannonballing. The man who brought Oerlikon to the U.S. is retired Lieut. General Kenneth Bonner Wolfe, 56, a bald-domed organizer who was in charge of B-29 production during the war, later plugged for huge forging and extrusion presses for the Air Force (TIME, March 3). As Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Materiel after the war, K. B. Wolfe was concerned over the backward state of U.S. aircraft armament. Convinced that private enterprise could do a better job than the Army, he talked to Emil Georg Bührle, owner of Oerlikon and probably Switzerland...
...world now has about 8,500 species of birds and 25,500 species of feather-eating lice. Nearly every bird has a few lice, and some have thousands. Benjamin Franklin, the Misses Rothschild and Clay report, regretted the choice of the bald eagle as the emblem of America "as he is generally poor and often very lousy." As soon as infant birds climb out of their eggs, the waiting lice set upon them, chewing their feathers and nibbling their skins. They crawl into the throat pouches of pelicans and cormorants. One species feeds exclusively on the tears of swifts...