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...some $40,000 for British War Relief. The warmly emotional audience, though it hardly cared, got its money's worth-till 4 a.m. At the microphone was England's own Gertrude Lawrence. Helen Hayes played Queen Victoria. The Information Please team guessed (right, as usual) that "a bald-headed man in charge of cross-country runners" was Mussolini...
...struggle went on from the day the President announced the OPM (Dec. 20) until last week. Upshot: the President compromised. He chose a Brookings-Institution-type of man, an expert in administrative procedure, who has dedicated his life to upping standards of public administration: Herbert Emmerich of Chicago, egg-bald, little (5 ft. 3¾! in.), 43, associate director of the Public Administration Clearing House-a quiet, capable, research-minded man, a management specialist who speaks French and German fluently. Rejected as a-soldier in World War I, Emmerich did counterespionage, has never talked about his experiences...
Promptly Husband Pough began a systematic prowl through Manhattan's stores and warehouses. He picked up feathers of 40 species of wild birds, including the whistling swan, osprey. great blue heron. A dozen firms sold plumage of the American bald eagle, although it is protected by act of Congress. Great stocks of foreign plumage-from Siberian storks, Philippine pelicans, Argentine rheas-drifted in through customs loopholes...
Scientists Earl Ralph Norris and James Hauschildt, of the University of Washington, announced discovery of a new vitamin, found in yeast and liver, that prevents baldness. They dubbed it "inositol." The vitamin, said bald Dr. Norris worked beautifully on mice. But it killed them...
Gypsy Amaya's show-and pay roll-includes some of her sisters and her cousins (whom she reckons up by dozens), her father, uncle and brother: 16 flamencos in all. Flamenco Agustin Castellan Sabicas is a wonderful guitarist, and Uncle Sebastian Manzano (hairy and called El Pelao, the bald one) admits to having two wives and 18 children in Spain. It is Carmen Amaya who stops the show with the wrigglings of her round rump and wiry body, the tossings of her disheveled gypsy hair, the animal fury of her tough, splash-mouthed face. In the improvised measures...