Word: baldishly
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...Baldish, greying, affable and modest Colonel Parker bosses an army of more than 1,400 subordinate engineers, some 9,200 construction workers. When he is not working in his map-and-chart-laden office, he travels over his huge project in a TVA plane. Says he: "We are able to get specialists in our organization and keep them, because of the nature of the work. We exchange ideas. We not only design our projects but we have our own force to construct them, so that there is co ordination...
...Baldish, roly-poly Federico Cantú, once an apprentice of Muralist Rivera, filled 57th Street's Guy Mayer Gallery more conventionally, with cactus, horses, ban-doleered soldiers and bedraggled peons. Best painting: a tropically rank portrait of Mexican Singer Aurelia Colomo (see cut), who carols tropically in the bar of Manhattan's Hotel Weylin...
Well-heeled Eastern youngsters last week drifted back to school and college, and a baldish band leader mopped his brow. During the holidays, Meyer Davis had flown up & down the Eastern seaboard, conducting orchestras for balls, assemblies, routs, benefits for Britain. Meyer Davis bands had played at 30 parties every night, and every night the leader had visited at least two of the parties in person. Now he could take it a little easier...
Mild-looking, baldish Georges Rouault, who was born in a bomb shelter during the Paris Commune, is now 69, is presumably living and working in occupied France, perhaps in Paris, where he holds a sinecure as director of a museum full of fairy-tale paintings by his teacher, Academician Gustave Moreau. Today a good Rouault costs about $3,500. For the Institute's Rouault show, Director Plaut was unable to import any paintings from Europe, or even to borrow one from the late exhibition at the New York World's Fair. He collected his show from...
...bridge as usual to make motion pictures of its gentle writhing under the wind. Soon after him came 25-year-old college student Winfield Brown, who paid his 10? pedestrian fee and walked across for the thrill. Approaching was a logging truck and an automobile driven by mild, baldish Leonard Coatsworth, reporter on the Tacoma News-Tribune. Mr. Coatsworth stopped to look at the undulations before he paid his toll. They were no worse than usual...