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...still unclear. This strange book is the work of a 47-year-old expatriate who was born in New York, worked as a tailor, personnel manager, ranchman in California, newspaperman, six-day bicycle racer, concert pianist and who settled in Paris "to study vice." Short, bald, shrewd and bespectacled, with something of the air of a country editor, Henry Miller says he wants to go off the gold standard of literature, to write the things that are left out of books...
...When I was a little girl I was bald as an egg until I was four years...
...never gave up hope of reviving Foxy: big, bald, frog-jowled Carl E. Schultze, who looked a lot like Foxy and who started drawing him on the first Sunday of the 20th Century for the old New York Herald. As the money Foxy earned dwindled, Cartoonist Schultze moved down the scale of Manhattan rooming houses, drew gym class posters for the Y. M. C. A., passed out little pictures of Foxy to neighborhood kids. Several years ago he went on relief, for a time was put to work interviewing job applicants at an employment agency...
Most relentless Atonalist was gloomy, bald-headed Arnold Schöberg, who in his time influenced at least half the younger composers of Europe. Other eminent Atonalists, all Schöberg disciples: Anton von Webern, who wrote orchestral pieces like the slight whine of a determined mosquito; the late Alban Berg, who wrote the atrabilious opera Wozzeck; Ernest Krenek, who once relapsed so far into cheerfulness as to write an imitation jazz opera called Johnny Spielt...
...impression, feeling with the Army at large that the Air Corps has got altogether too many bouquets in recent years. Resentful airmen, aware that they were ordered to fly predetermined courses under conditions which would not obtain in war time, boiled out of their ships with profane explanations. Finally bald, patient General Gardner had to caution newsmen: "Nobody is trying to win a war here...