Word: baldish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...store silently shook their heads when Shopkeeper Armand Bertele offered to help them. The figures in nun's garb had reason for silence: they were in reality male counter-intelligence agents of France's formidable Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire, and they were more interested in baldish, Austrian-born Armand Bertele's comings and goings than in commentaries and chaplets...
Network and non-network stations all over the U.S. are producing talk shows, but none has done it with the insistence of WNTA, whose bustling, baldish supervisor, Ted Cott, seems to operate on the assumption that TV has already accomplished what its gloomiest prophets long ago predicted: killed the art of conversation on the other side of the picture tube...
...whiz-bang salesman, production and styling expert. In the shift, Curtice's job and power were split. Donner was named board chairman (succeeding Albert Bradley) and chief executive officer. For the presidency, the board picked a dark-horse candidate from G.M.'s executive pool: lean (160 Ibs.), baldish John Franklin Gordon, 58, who had been vice president for the body and assembly divisions. Fred Donner will continue to work from New York, watch G.M.'s pocketbook, speak for the company on broad policy. Jack Gordon will handle production in Detroit, probably do much of the talking about...
History can sneak up on a man when his back is turned. Captain Cwiklinski, master of the Polish passenger liner Batory, was not looking one May day in Manhattan six years ago, when a baldish little man with glasses came aboard on a 25? visitor's ticket and sailed as a stowaway. Unlike most stowaways, he soon dug first-class passage money from his pocket. He also owned up to the name of Gerhart Eisler. For unwittingly aiding in the escape of a key Communist agent, badly wanted in the U.S., Captain Cwiklinski got involved in a nasty, three...