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4444The barbers said that any price raise on haircuts will be applicable to crew cuts, trims, and haircuts for partially bald...
Months later Shigeko was still bald and beet-complexioned, so she was dubbed Aka Oni (Red Devil). After a nurse ordered her burned hands bandaged, they became gnarled like briar roots, and she lost the use of fingers and hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...
...Athens, lanky, egg-bald Conductor Mitropoulos (some members of the Philharmonic affectionately speak of him as "E.G."-for egghead) visited the open-air Herodes Atticus Theater, told friends he was praying for rain so that he could play in an indoor theater and would not have to compete with the splendor of the floodlit Acropolis and Parthenon. He had his wish. A downpour washed the first concert indoors-not before King and Cabinet Ministers were consulted on the crisis. The switch came so late that Chief Baggage Master Vincent Jacoby tried to shoulder the orchestra's harp into...
...USUALLY KIND TO ACTRESS BETTE DAVIS IN THE PICTORIAL DEPARTMENT, THEREFORE IT CAME AS A SHOCK WHEN YOU DID NOT PUBLISH A PORTRAIT OF HER ELIZABETH. OBVIOUSLY, YOU DID NOT WISH ANYONE TO SEE THE VIRGIN QUEEN BALD. I SHOULD THINK YOU WOULD HAVE SAVED US THE TRIAL OF GOING TO THE MOVIE JUST FOR CURIOSITY...
There was not a baggy suit among the lot of them, or a frown, when twelve visiting Russian farm officials showed up at the Department of Agriculture last week for an appointment with Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Bald and effusive, Russia's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich presented Benson with a couple of souvenir lacquered boxes, one of them showing a family of bears gamboling happily in a forest. Benson asked how to say "thank you" in Russian, said "spasibo," and handed Matskevich a 4-H Club tie-clip, a photograph of the Benson family and a book...