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...father is bald, the baby is most likely to be a boy. But if father has gout, the chances are it will be a girl. These are the conclusions of Marianne E. Bernstein, a former Fulbright fellow who specializes in reducing the facts of life to cold figures...
...this theory, gout should be commoner among teachers than tycoons. Marianne Bernstein neglects to say which side will win if a child is fathered by a bald-headed man with gout...
...life making the dream come true. His aim was "to complement. . . the beauty of the town [with] the beauty of the fields, the meadow, the prairie, of the green pastures and still waters." It was not easy. The region chosen for the park was an unsightly swamp laced with bald rock ridges and pimpled with squatters' shacks. To see it whole and make it new required optimism and an unwavering mind...
Pancake on Legs. Ernst Wollweber spent the last years of the war in Russia. In 1946, he came back to Germany and stepped into his seemingly legitimate job in the Ministry of Transport. He has a glowing bald spot, and his once rugged frame has grown so fat and flabby that his staff refer to him covertly in the Berlin dialect as "Pfannkuchen uff Beene"-pancake on legs. But inside, as the West is learning to its discomfort, Ernst Wollweber is still the tough and brutal plotter, still a master of his craft. His diligent Red troublemakers and riot-prompters...
Falling Hair & Psychiatry. Time has treated him fairly well; at an average age of 46, he admits to being grey-haired (43% of the class), to worrying a bit about falling hair (27% are bald), but generally, he has his teeth (16% have some false teeth). He may have had a nervous breakdown (5%), undergone psychiatric treatment (12%), and been divorced (13%). A few of his classmates (1%) admit to having cheated on their income tax. Another 1% have fathered illegitimate children, 5% have kept mistresses. One old grad hinted that he was an embezzler. Another served a sentence...