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...theirs is not to reason why, square-headed Berlin police seized fat and foxy Premier Otto Braun of Prussia on July 20 and forcibly barred him from his office. Last week Dr. Braun came back. Waddling up the steps while a friendly throng shouted "Hail, Freedom!", he exposed his bald head, bowed several times from the waist, replaced his hat, entered his office, took off his hat and sat down once again as Premier of Prussia. "I do wish," said Dr. Braun, "that President von Hindenburg had consulted me before signing that decree. It is not enjoyable to be turned...
...dozen well-known Democrats up to the 21st floor of Manhattan's Empire State Building. They stepped out into the comfortable quarters of the Empire State Club, were bowed into a private dining room overlooking 34th Street. Ranged around the luncheon table were James Aloysius Farley, the bald, boyish chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's energetic little aristocrat; Charles Michelson, the party's elderly, tousle-headed pressagent; Frank Walker, the committee's treasurer; Arthur O'Brien, headquarters worker-and John Jacob Raskob...
...prospect of party victory, rarely brighter, supplied most of the motive power. Day after day on his western tour Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with speeches widely acclaimed as making sense, held the front pages of the nation. Close beside him at every turn could be seen the rosy bald spot of his astute manager, National Chairman James Aloysius Farley whose purpose, like that of a good boxer, is to keep the Republicans constantly on the defensive, force the fighting. William Gibbs McAdoo who pulled the Roosevelt nomination out of William Randolph Hearst's hat at Chicago ostentatiously joined the Governor...
Academicians have been much on the defensive in recent years. Fortnight ago before bald James Monroe Hewlett sailed to take up his duties as Director of the American Academy in Rome he announced that teaching students to copy classic remains was "not the Academy's idea at all" (TIME, Sept. 26). This statement was hailed with gusto by hawser-lipped Walter Pach. He announced that that was just what he was going to do at the Art Students' League, hold a course in Tradition which will teach art students how to look at Old Masters, insulating them...
...when the words had no commercial connotation. After the mill of Harvard and a law office, John Quincy Adams embarked on a diplomatic career, became successively Senator, Ambassador, Secretary of State, President. Short (5 ft. 7 in.), too fat for his height, at 49 "he was almost completely bald; his constant reading had subjected him to a rheumy affection of the eyes which gave him the appearance of continually having tears running down his cheeks. ... He was negligent, even slovenly, in his dress." He was Harvard's first (1806-09) Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory, the chair so long...