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Nervously clutching a lanyard, a plump, bald little man stood in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week, out of sight of the audience but within range of a large orchestra whose members were blowing and fiddling for dear life. Suddenly the orchestra leader raised his hand with a jerk. The bald man shut his eyes, pulled the lanyard. Boom went a 17-in. cannon. Boom, Boom, Boom it went again, each time almost knocking the little cannoneer off his feet. Sixteen rifles in the hands of 16 U. S. Coast Guardsmen and infantry fired a volley...
Ever since Pilsudski's death last year, the Polish Government has tried to convince the Polish people that Rydz-Smigly is a man of the same stern, lusty stripe. Actually Rydz-Smigly is a polite, modest gentleman with a bald head, whose thin lips are his only evidence of severity. Before he joined the revolutionary Pilsudski Legion in 1914, he was an art student, specializing in landscapes...
...obscure wizards, might pass with scant attention. But they are the statements of Dr. Alexander. Cannon, M. D., Ph. D., M. A., K. C. A., D. P. M., Ch. B., F. R. G. S., F. R. S. M., one of the most extraordinary figures in British science. Bald, round-faced Dr. Cannon is co-author of respectable treatises on psychiatry and neurology, an active staff member of the London County Mental Hospital Service. A member in good standing of the British Medical Association, he was on its Executive Council in 1934-35. Nevertheless he has delved so deeply into Oriental...
...March the trustees of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of. Technology chose as their next president Robert Ernest Doherty, bald, able Dean of Yale's Engineering School (TIME, March 9). Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair promptly walked out of the trustees' meeting, snorted: "This fellow's a Communist. He's been associated with Steinmetz- and they're all Communists." The Mayor's characterization needed no further refutation last week when arch-Conservative" University of Pittsburgh invited President elect Doherty to its Commencement exercises, made him an honorary LL.D. Also honored...
Down to a three-point at Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal one day last week slid a little Boeing pursuit plane with a hood over its single cockpit. Out of it, grinning broadly, jumped a chunky, bald pilot who had just made the first completely "blind" flight across...