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...adventures of Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Imitating and burlesquing such heroes, he began concocting science-fiction tales that he mimeographed and sold to other students. One of Siegel's lesser creations was a story called The Reign of the Superman, which featured an evil scientist with a bald head. Superman as villain? The thought is enough to make posterity shudder. But this was not the stuff of greatness. It was only during a sleepless summer night in 1934, after Siegel had graduated, that the grand inspiration came: Superman as hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Most Tasteless, but Exciting Fans: Cornell. Hands down, Lynah Rink is one big party. The fans do the newspaper bit, the fish bit, the sexual object bit, the chicken bit. They do it all. Even call Coach Bill Cleary bald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Barnyards of SLU to the Gates of Troy | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

...just in case you were planning to wait it out and see what the great Elmore Silk is really like, don't bother; he's a bearded bald guy who lives in Nova Scotia, looks like a truck driver, and like almost everyone else, rips Julius...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Candy Molehill | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

...seems well and good--until Tom, in a straightforward, unapologetic manner that characterizes the entire novel, relates the lurid tale of his punishment for the time, as a young child, that he killed the last bald-eagle in Colleton County "for pleasure, for the singularity...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: Triumph and Tragedy in Colleton, Carolina | 2/20/1988 | See Source »

...minutes, and that was the cue for the kids to break out." Some youngsters still carry knives and guns as casually as pocket combs. One parent assaulted her, and she notes, "I've had kids say to me, 'I'm going to punch you,' or they call me 'that bald-headed bitch' because of my short hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting Tough | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

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