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Broad Grant. Bald, faithful Speaker Sam Rayburn, who rushed back from a vacation on his Texas ranch to steer some kind of measure quickly through the House, soon sensed Congress' temper. He and the House majority leader, tall, toothy John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, huddled with the President, made their plans...
...home opposition split into two warring camps. One is the noisy Ossewa Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand patterned after the old Boer republics'. His spokesmen claim that a victorious Hitler would entrust South Africa's government to the Herenigde, as the largest opposition...
...Manhattan's Art Students League dusted out its classrooms for the opening of the fall semester last week, a spry, round-faced oldster with a head as bald as a pumpkin prepared for another whack at the job he had been doing year in & year out for the past 43 years: teaching U.S. artists how to draw the human figure. The oldster's name, as unfamiliar to the general public as it is familiar to practically every artist in the U.S., was George Brant Bridgman. Teacher Bridgman has good reason to take his teaching duties seriously. Some...
...route miles it has lost since 1940, would just as soon take them from U.S. airlines as anybody else. German-run and German-controlled only nine months ago, Condor was nationalized after Pearl Harbor. But until the day Brazil went to war Condor's managing director was tall, bald Ernesto Hoelck, who speaks an excellent brand of German-accented Portuguese. So the U.S. kept Condor on the blacklist...
Gifts. In Osceola, Neb., county fair officials offered a free permanent wave to the champion woman chicken-raiser, a free haircut to the man who bought the most bonds. Winners: curly-haired Addie Carter, bald Al Nicklaus...