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...years, bald, parchment-faced, Austrian-born Composer Arnold Schönberg has written music so complicated that only he and a couple of other fellows understand what it is all about. This music, which sounds to the uninitiated not only queer but accidental, has been enjoyed by very few. But it has thrown the world of music into a Kilkenny cat fight. One cat camp maintains that Schönberg's music, like Einstein's theory, sounds queer because it is way over the average man's head; opponents swear that Schönberg is pulling everybody...
Most violinists were content to let him keep his unplayable piece to himself. Not so Louis Krasner. This bald, soft-spoken Boston fiddler had already won sympathetic cheers for fighting his way through a similarly cacophonous, crossword concerto by Schönberg's pupil, Alban Berg. Stung by this new challenge, Krasner sent for Schönberg's piece and started in on it. For thankless months he sawed, plucked and stabbed away at its impossible chords and tuneless, jittery rhythms. "It was six months." said he, "before I began to understand...
Apparently nervous over the fact that Carroll's balding head, which gives him the look of a village deacon, might detract from the glamor to be associated with a dashing entrepreneur of naked floor shows, Paramount suggested that Carroll wear a wig in the picture. Carroll refused, explained: "A bald-headed boulevardier has more appeal for women than any clumsy youngster, no matter how well covered is his scalp...
Last week he was appointed High Commissioner to Syria and Lebanon, a job in which his ruthless efficiency would be appreciated by a Government facing revolt in its colonial possessions. Stocky, bald-headed Jean Chiappe immediately set out for his post by air. His plane passed over Corsica and Sardinia, winged on over the blue Mediterranean toward Africa. About halfway there Jean Chiappe got a bird's-eye view of British and Italian naval forces fighting a battle. Above the warships planes dodged and swooped in an air fight. One of them (British, according to the Italians) caught sight...
...professional bondsman, softspoken, paunchy Ed McNew was quite an elusive figure to Knoxville citizens. For months before his crime the press had denounced his influence with judges and police, had tried in vain to get his picture. Then one night a Knoxville Journal photographer, lean, bald Howard Jones, cruised by Ed McNew's office, flashed a bulb, sped away with a snapshot...