Word: baldinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At rehearsal, the musicians of London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gaped at the unwonted spectacle of their crustaceous conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, taking advice and instruction. His adviser, standing next to the podium, was a stumpy, balding little old man in a frayed brown suit. Once, when the little...
¶To Annapolis' blue-jawed, balding, postwar midshipmen, TIME'S ensign is dipped in apology.-ED.
For years, as head of the Communist Party's Agitation and Propaganda Section, balding, sharp-eyed Philosopher Georgy Fedorovich Aleksandrov had been Russia's No. 1 ideological vigilante. In the magazine Bolshevik, and his fortnightly paper, Culture and Life, he had denounced novelists, playwrights, journalists, artists, cinema directors...
Divorced. Tommy Dorsey, 41, balding bandleader who is billed as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"; by onetime Cinemactress Patricia Dane ("Tommy," she announced, "is the first person I'll have a date with when I return to Los Angeles"); in Reno.
In her chintz dressing room, Margaret put on her own makeup, straightened the folds in her voluminous white chiffon skirt. She was calm and confident. She had a master of orchestral accompaniment in balding Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and he had rehearsed her carefully.