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...Bald, a broker, great-grandson of the banker Jay Cooke who helped finance the Union in the Civil War, 43-year-old Mr. Cooke is unopposed in the G.O.P. primary...
...making the bald-faced assertion that materialistic considerations just don't count in international relations. Professor Elliott's "common-sense" argument may still be phony. If so, it is to be answered on its own ground. What has happened to the proposition that nobody wins a war -- economically or otherwise...
Grey-cast, billiard-bald Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, deviser of the frequency modulation system of broadcasting, has twice in his time revolutionized radio-first by the regenerative, or feedback, circuit, which outmoded crystal sets; next by his superheterodyne hookup, the basis for present-day one-dial tuning. His FM system has all the earmarks of another, and more sweeping revolution. Neither sunspots, lightning, electric razors, icebox motors, telephone dials, switches, bed warmers nor passing street cars can ruffle its calm...
...Appalachian State Teachers College, one of the South's best, with nearly 1,000 students and a $2,500,000 plant. Dr. Dougherty, president of the college, is a power in the State. At 69, he has lost none of his sharpness, none of his homespun ruggedness. Bald and stoop-shouldered, he always wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat and stiff collar. When he has a political chore to do in Raleigh, he collars legislators in hotel lobbies, doodles with a pencil stub on one of his shoe soles while he talks to them...
LeTourneau's dual occupation seems natural enough to him. Born to devout parents in Richford, Vt., he had three maternal uncles who were ministers, two missionary sisters. At 51 he is a bald, rugged six-footer who looks not unlike Presidential Aspirant Robert Alphonso Taft. He has frequent fits of temper, but he neither smokes, drinks nor swears, likes to lend his loud, bass voice to a revival audience and shout: "Gone, gone, gone, gone. Yes my sins are gone...