Word: baldingly
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Died. Vasil Kolarov, 72, bald, bull-necked old Comintern handyman who in July 1949 succeeded Georgi Dimitrov as Premier of Bulgaria; after long illness...
...President, who looked relaxed and spruce in a sharply creased grey suit and a neatly knotted dark tie, roared with the crowd as Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn launched the evening speechmaking. The bald, benign and beaming Speaker hoped that the Republicans would win some congressional seats and "give us a two-party system." As a 67-year-old bachelor to a 72-year-old bridegroom, he also gave Vice President Alben Barkley a leer and a nudge on his recent marriage...
...chatted with Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith and entertained a group of other political friends with a chile-con-carne feast in the hotel penthouse. That evening he got into a tuxedo and escorted Mrs. Truman and Margaret to dinner and an evening reception. The host: suave, bald Blevins Davis, 46, onetime Independence schoolteacher who became a theatrical producer, married aged Heiress Margaret Sawyer Hill (a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon James J. Hill) in 1946 and inherited her fortune when she died last year...
This season the same team minus Walter has worked it back to first-class shape. Last week came a decision. Leopold Stokowski, 67, informed the directors he would not be available next season; the board voted unanimously to make 53-year-old, egg-bald Dimitri Mitropoulos the Philharmonic's regular conductor...
...sufficiently in Caesar and Cleopatra, e.g., his burlesqued esthete (well played by John Buckmaster) and frightfully proper Early Briton (well played by Arthur Treacher). But the tone of the play is prevailingly wry and ironic. The air seems very chill at times for all the Mediterranean sunlight. A bald and aging conqueror withholds his heart from a violent young girl rather than have her torture it; then, with a rueful smile, promises to send her a dashing young Marc Antony. "Murder shall breed murder . . ." he laments, "until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand...