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Last week Turkey's Premier Dr. Refik Saydani (rhymes with "by damn"), the bald little former Health Minister whose hospitals and clinics brought fine physical health to "the sick man of Europe," died of a heart attack at 61. Dr. Saydani had had personal leanings toward the United Nations...
...blatant battle piece, is a musical interpretation of Russia at war. In the strict sense, it is less a symphony than a symphonic suite. Like a great wounded snake, dragging its slow length, it uncoils for 80 minutes from the orchestra. There is little development of its bold, bald, foursquare themes. There is no effort to reduce the symphony's loose, sometimes skeletal structures to the epic compression and economy of the classic symphony...
...does not look like the kind of man Louie Macy would look at. His face, sallow and lined by illness, is not so much against him socially as his restless, jittery wriggling which keeps his suits wrinkled and baggy. His thin, straggly hair is combed carefully over a growing bald spot...
...wear the mantle of Pershing in World War II landed in England last week and took over a new command: U.S. forces in the European theater. Whether trim, bald Major General Dwight David Eisenhower would indeed command the invasion when it came off, or whether he would later become chief of staff to a higher ranking officer, Army men cried "Amen" to his appointment...
...drawn by a white-clad woman disciple. About his body was a simple cotton loincloth, the thread of which was spun by his own hands. In one hand he held a rag, which he constantly dipped into a bowl of water by his side and wiped over his shiny bald head. About him followers and secretaries knelt crosslegged. Gandhi looked old as wisdom, skeleton-thin, sharp, birdlike; now all his teeth are gone. He seemed in remarkable spirits...