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...some memorable glimpses: the unchivalrous disinterest of newspaper-reading delegates on ladies' day; NBC's pickup of the small but illuminating drama of Adlai Stevenson's reception for Mrs. Roosevelt; Bess Truman, behind dark glasses, nudging Harry in the ribs for speaking out of turn; bottle-bald Sam Rayburn (who did not submit to a dulling topsoil application of orange powder this time, as he did the last) threatening to shoot an admonishing finger right through the little glass screens in U.S. living rooms; the grin spreading across H. V. Kaltenborn's face as he watched...
...tough, bald-pated Wladyslaw Gomulka, once known as Poland's "Little Stalin," walked the plank. He was expelled from the Polish Communist Party for Titoist tendencies, and one of his former colleagues on the Politburo scornfully charged that lifelong Communist Gomulka had become "a symbol of reaction for the bourgeoisie and rich peasants." Nearly seven years later, in a characteristically Marxist twist of fate, 51-year-old Wladyslaw Gomulka's appeal to "reactionaries" turned out to be his political salvation...
...Here." The accused's square shoulders sagged; then, without a word, his blue eyes glistening, he did a smart about-face and walked away from the bench. Beside him, his bald, hawk-nosed attorney whirled in the other direction, his face flushed. "No statements. Let's get out of here," rasped the usually helpful Emile Zola Berman as reporters swarmed about them. "No statements," the marine echoed dully. He spread his hands helplessly before...
...outdid yourselves. The cover portrait looks exactly like Stevenson, from his bald pate down to his tiny chin. Congratulations to TIME and James Chapin...
Died. Maurice-Edmond Sailland, 83, bald, rotund (220 Ibs.) Gallic gourmet better known by his self-styled title Prince Curnonsky, founder (1928) of France's famed Académie des Gastronomes and head of 27 gastronomical societies, prolific culinary writer (France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes); after accidentally falling from a window of his fourth-floor apartment; in Paris...