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...years, lean, bald, stubble-lipped Arnaldo Cortesi was a correspondent for the New York Times in Rome. Son of a robust, retired Italian journalist (who had for 29 years been head of the Associated Press bureau in Rome) and a Boston mother, Cortesi was perfectly equipped to tell U. S. citizens about Mussolini's Italy...
...mild treatments, which allowed nature to take its course, grew very popular: by the time he was old he had fame & fortune. Bald and bright-eyed at 79, he married a wealthy French woman of 35, moved to Paris, where he set up a palatial establishment with huge suites of waiting rooms filled with statues and paintings of himself. So numerous were his patients that their carriages rolled in slow procession all day long for blocks around his mansion. In 1843, at the age of 88, he died, having trained his wife, no doctor, to carry on his work...
...unpaid, disgruntled Republican workers last week went a reassuring whisper from the offices of Mr. Cooke: the pot was being saved for the November attack on the New Deal, would be all the bigger then. After all, the nomination of bald, affable Mr. Cooke for U. S. Senator was a cinch (result: Cooke, around 650,000; Albert H. Ladner, of Philadelphia, about...
Once, after a furious row during rehearsals, she turned on her vegetarian adorer with: "Some day you'll eat a pork chop, and then God help all women!" Much more blandly she told bald Playwright Marc Connelly that she hadn't recognized him right off because he was wearing his hair a new way. She could meet any situation. One day, when her dog misbehaved in a taxicab, the driver let off a stream of profanity. Stella Campbell stared coldly at him, drawled, "Young man, that was me." She always did as she pleased. She was reputedly...
...Bald, cob-nosed Designer Teague has been beautifying machine-age gadgets ever since 1928, when Eastman Kodak Co. hired him to spiffy up its then drab-looking cameras. From cameras. Teague went on to magnifying glasses, mirrors, telescopes, binoculars. Steuben glassware...