Word: baldish
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...Ministry at Rio de Janeiro, delivered a formal protest. Subject: ribald Brazilian gibes (specifically, a ribbing story in O Globo) at an international marriage. The bride: nubile Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold) Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican Republic's Dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The groom: plump, baldish Brazilian Industrialist Antenor Mayrink Veiga...
...Principal opposition candidate in Ecuador's June election will be tallish, baldish Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, leader of the newly organized coalition Alianza Democratica (Democratic Alliance). A none-too-successful President (1934-35), he has wide support among the lower classes, students, others who do not like President Carlos A. Arroyo...
...final print. The trimetrogon method, by making it possible to space charting flights 25 miles apart instead of only four to six, has enormously accelerated mapping. Last fortnight its inventor, Lieut. Colonel Gerald ("Colonel Fitz") Fitzgerald, Chief of the Air Force's aeronautical chart division, a baldish, twinkling Irishman, was awarded the Sherman Mills Fairchild plaque for his achievement...
...Ruby career moved on, he plugged songs with George Gershwin, played the piano for Irving Berlin, and accompanied Walter Winchell, who was singing at the time in a Woolworth 5-&-10? store on 14th Street. His first real break came when he got a job with a baldish music publisher and prestidigitator named Bert Kalmar. With Kalmar as collaborator, Ruby composed so many hits and Broadway musicals (Five O'Clock Girl; Animal Crackers; Helen of Troy, N.Y.; Top Speed) that Hollywood beckoned...
...churches in Russia have been closed. Three are now open in Moscow. One of them, St. Louis de Francois, is pastored by 40-year-old, Massachusetts-born Leopold A. A. Braun. His congregation numbers between 25,000-30,000. Daily Mass draws almost 200; Sunday Mass about 600. Short, baldish Father Braun, who went to Russia in 1934, lives in the old French Embassy with his police dog, has had a hard time getting food and fuel, "but his sources of cigarettes were holding up fairly well, and occasionally someone gave him a bottle...