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Died. Countess Baldwin of Bewdley. seventyish, motherly, speechifying wife of Britain's ex-Prime Minister Stanley Bald win (they met at the home of his cousin...
...civilians have ever heard of Rear Admiral Harold Gardiner Bowen, but the U.S. Navy knows him very well indeed. Stocky and bald, the fiery Admiral possesses a quality much rarer than courage in battle: an absolute fearlessness of superior rank when one of his pet projects is involved. His scrappy perseverance is a departmental legend. Over strong brass-hat opposition, he helped browbeat the Navy into adopting new high-pressure, high-temperature steam turbines, which have proved invaluable in World War II's ships (TIME, July 12, 1943). He has been officially cited as the spark plug behind...
...Finally, bald, persuasive Speaker Sam Rayburn went down to the floor, solemnly read a letter from President Truman: "I regard the pending measure . . . as of the first order of importance for the success of my administration." With the party whip thus cracked. Democrats held firm, passed the bill 239 to 153, sent it to a none-too-friendly Senate where hearings, debate and outcry would start this week...
...Salzburg jail, a bald, wrinkled old man regarded the shackles on his wrists...
Lieut. General William Hood Simpson, immaculate, billiard-bald Ninth Army commander, was the most rumpled guest at a victory-celebration banquet in Germany: Soviet officers honored him with a triple toss ceilingward, the stouthearted Russian version of "three cheers...