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...Washington the U.S. Ambassador to Vichy, tall, bald Admiral William Daniel Leahy, sat down to his first press conference since he left France, a few days after Pierre Laval became Chief of Government. For the record Admiral Leahy said: 1) the U.S. had been wise in maintaining relations with Vichy; 2) the U.S. should help stricken France in every way that would not help the Axis; 3) "the people of France are practically unanimously pro-American...
...Auburn Street's squat, bald, Packard-driving Benny Jacobson, owner of the Gold Coast Valeteria, is here at Harvard to stay. This is the place where he always wanted to be, so he's sticking. "I've had lots of opportunities to leave for much bigger jobs, but I couldn't do it. It's my life, here at Harvard," says Benny. Already, in less than six years he has become more a part of Harvard than some of its aging Professors, and he'll defend it, too belligerently at times, against any comer, whether from Yale or City Hall...
Hamilton examined the heads of a group of 54 men who had failed to mature sexually or were rendered sexless by accident. Not one of them was bald, though 43% of normal men lose much of their hair in middle age. The unmasculine also had much less dandruff than normal...
Veteran Photographer James Abbe, father of Patience, Richard and Johnny (whose Around the World in Eleven Years was a best-seller in 1936), turned up in Portland, Ore. last week as that city's first full-time radio newscaster. Now 59, tiny, egg-bald Abbe began a two-a-day stint for the Oregonian's twin stations KGW and KEX. Said he: "All my life editors told me to photograph or write but for God's sake stop talking. Now I can talk...
Died. Alfred Hertz. 69, black-bearded, bald conductor of German opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera from 1902 to 1915, director of the San Francisco Symphony for the following 15 years; in San Francisco. At the Met he conducted the first U.S. performances of Richard Strauss's Salome and Rosenkavalier...