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...that at my age I must continue to watch over Greek liberties!" shrilled 71-year-old M. Venizelos, his famed skull cap jerking back & forth on his bald head, to rest now on his neck, now on the bridge of his nose. "I had announced my retirement, but if the ex-King dares to return, I shall return to the political arena, resolved to save my country from the tyranny of a royalist dictatorship...
Bernard Willis ("Barney") Snow, when not estimating crops for Bartlett Frazier Co. of Chicago, is playing politics or golf. Dean of forecasters, he has also served as bailiff of the Municipal Court and member of the Chicago City Council. Portly, bald-pated and 70, he sports a white military mustache, wears his hat tilted over one eye. He began as a Tennessee farmer, joined the Department of Agriculture as a day laborer in 1884. Nine years later he became the first commercial crop forecaster. He collects his information from 5,000 correspondents. Barney Snow has one eccentricity. He never selects...
...Walton, 54, newshawk of his father-in-law's New York Age, formerly writer for the defunct New York World. He visited Monrovia two years ago, was presented with a leopard skin by Liberia's President Barclay, attended sessions of the International Liberian Com-mission at Geneva. Clean shaven, bald, a modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife and two débutante daughters, 20 & 21. Said the Baltimore Afro-American of Minister-designate Walton: "His indorsements for the position come from a cross-section of American life . . . Senator Robert F. Wagner, white . . . Claude A. Barnett...
...waiting; he left an abusive diary lying around; he told guests they had obviously come just for the free meal; he took his vacations by himself; he called her extravagant and spent money on fishing tackle. Alfred Ross's countercharge: She had called him "a coward, pansy, bald-headed nincompoop, sap, thief, bum, crazy...
...bedroom to the bathroom, a metamorphosis illustrated nowhere better than in the Wild West poker game which revolves around a bottle of Pluto Water. Unchanged and unchanging, however, are the Carroll girls. As pretty and as hussy as ever, they bring their erotism a bit closer to the bald-headed row this year by pulling off their garters, tossing them to nearby spectators...