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...helicopter had been simplified and made as comfortable as any small commercial aircraft. Two years ago, Sikorsky's dream-craft was an uncovered, bony collection of tubular steel and whirling props. Orthodox airmen eyed it askance as Sikorsky, with a too-small fedora perched sedately on his bald pate, dropped down into Connecticut sand pits and flew out again, or started to land on the hangar roof, skipped off it and landed on the apron in front...
Daredeviltry and Research. Eddie Allen, 47, looked like no Hollywood conception of a test pilot. He was modest to the point of shyness. Frail as a column of smoke, he never weighed more than 135. The few straggly strands of hair on top of his bald pate made him look like a tweedy cupid. His nose was fused into his face when he spun to earth more than 20 years ago in young Fred Harvey's white Curtiss Jenny, but many years later a plastic surgeon built him a creditable nose...
TIME'S cover portrait of egg-bald Jap Admiral Nagano and his pistol-pointing battleship stirred up so much interest that I thought you might like to know something about the thinking behind TIME'S covers and how they are planned...
...Senate, up rose Alabama's bald, cotton-wise John H. Bankhead, to propose a Congressional examination of the Army goals. Said John Bankhead...
...Bald, rumpled Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of Uruguay, en route for a visit to the U.S., paused last week in Rio de Janeiro's swank Copacabana Hotel to give a tip on a new trend in South America foreign policies. Over ham, potato salad and agua mineral he told reporters...