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...Henry Kaiser's Portland shipyards, the President watched the launching of the Joseph N. Teal-first ship in the world ever to hit the water ten days after keel laying (TIME, Oct. 5). He and bald Henry Kaiser sat in the open automobile, atop a wooden ramp, while torches burned through the steel plates that held the Teal in place. Down slid the ship. Mrs. Boettiger swung a champagne bottle so hard that she was drenched...
Sweden's bald, bushy-browed, Social Democratic Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson should have been bowling or playing bridge with Octogenarian King Gustav in the Royal Palace as was his wont. The recent elections had produced no surprises. The Government Coalition had lost moderately to the left, but had still received 94% of all the votes cast...
...affectation about his passion for his job. Three years ago, at the launching of the America, which he designed for the U.S. Lines, officials looked everywhere among the gathered celebrities for William Francis. He had vanished. They finally spotted him. Bored by speechmaking, he was perched like a bald eagle at the top cf a scaffolding to get a better view of his ship when she hit the water...
...last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party of 50, another couple of hundred in the ballroom, all at the same time. Amidst 18th-Century French paintings, Chinese screens and a slightly rococo splendor, Condé Nast presided, bald and genial, peering sphinxlike through pince-nez glasses, the arbiter of his world...
...Bald, squat, harried ex-Cinemagnate Joseph M. Schenck, having served a third of his year-and-a-day term for perjury, walked free on parole. Originally sentenced to three years for income-tax evasion (to the tune of $412,000), he won a suspension of that sentence after testifying against union racketeers Willie Bioff and George E. Browne...