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Family Man. The Hammersteins have a house in Manhattan, but he prefers Highland Farm, which was furnished by Mrs. Hammerstein, a professional interior decorator ("We didn't get cute"). There he rises at about 7:30 and gets a massage by Peter Moen, a bald, powerful Norwegian, without whom he refuses to go anywhere (partly because Peter is homesick, Hammerstein has decided to take a trip to Scandinavia next month...
...first few days, the committee seemed not particularly interested in bald, fat little Hanns Eisler. What seemed to interest it most was a long list of "certain prominent persons" who, it charged, had tried to help Eisler enter the U.S. The list sparkled with glittery names: Radio Commentator Raymond Swing, onetime Willkieman Russell Davenport, Hollywood Director William Dieterle, Columnist Dorothy Thompson and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Grad. Another ghost from the past was Joseph Zack Kornfedder, salesman for a Detroit manufacturer. In other days he was known as Joseph Zack. Old, bald ex-Bolshevik Zack described how he had climbed steadily from organizer to big shot in the party...
Terrific Soul. Dean of the Class of 1947 is Bing-bald Buddy Clark, 35. In the late '30s, Buddy was well up into the second team of U.S. crooners, but his big mouth spoiled it all. Says one radio producer: "He'd louse up a song right on the air. You'd ask him why. Oh, he just felt like it." When Buddy got out of the Army in 1945, he was soberer, had a "new, terrific soul" in his voice. The Carnation program took a gamble on him (Mon. 10 p.m., NBC), and a Clark record...
Sophie designs with the help of a sketcher and tall, bald Stewart Erlkin, who is a good enough designer to do Sophie's sophisticated models with little help from her. She also buys sketches from outsiders, changing them to suit her taste. And, like all other designers, she constantly combs over the styles of the last 5,000 years. One of her most fertile hunting grounds is the Brooklyn Museum, which she likes because it lets her take costumes back to her shop for copying. This year it supplied the inspiration for a woman's suit jacket copied...