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Twin Purposes. The Commission had worked for three months under Assistant Attorney General A. Devitt Vanech, a billiard-bald lawyer from Connecticut with 14 years' service in the Justice Department. Other members represented the State, Treasury, War & Navy Departments and the Civil Service Commission...
Tradition has it that Oliver Wendell Holmes, the younger, used to attend burlesque shows regularly. Possibly the performers of his day were able to realize the potentialities for earthy, uninhibited humor inherent in the Burlesque medium, or perhaps then the strippers really answered the ancient ery of the bald-headed row to "take it off," but whatever attracted the great man to the Scoally Square theatricals is no longer there...
...Connor lashed in the winning goal. In Manhattan next night, Les Canadiens brought their local color along. While winning again and clinching first place, they engaged in Madison Square Garden's liveliest hockey riot in many a year (partial score: three misconduct penalties, an obstreperous fan's bald pate creased...
After that there could be no doubt that Harry Truman's three-day trip to Mexico was an unqualified diplomatic success. The trip had been planned on the spur of the moment, and largely because of his friendship for Mexico's bald, beaming Ambassador Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros. The ambassador had suggested a visit one day last winter; the President had agreed wholeheartedly, then had said: "How about some time in March...
...many a month, the World Bank had dangled over a precipice like a melodrama heroine. Last week, while financiers cheered lustily, the Bank was snatched from disaster's clutches. Its rescuer was no wavy-haired glamor boy, but John Jay McCloy, 51, a bald and chunky Manhattan corporation lawyer who had done a bang-up administrative job as Assistant Secretary...