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Basso Hines's voice was as big, dark and smooth as the best of them, and his basketball-player's height (6 ft. 6½ in.) gave him a properly commanding appear ance. His craggy makeup, with its shaggy beard and beetling brows, made him resemble the tormented Mussorgsky him self. He did not quite have the authority to dominate the role, but few expected a first try to be a great one, and the crowd yelled itself hoarse after the death scene, called Hines back for seven solo curtain calls...
...into his life with a young couple and a baby who had just been evicted and had nowhere to go. Abbé Pierre bedded them down in his ramshackle house in a run-down Paris suburb. In no time, the word got around that the "abbé with the beard" was a soft touch. His house became headquarters for the homeless...
...Fred Jones, 61, Oklahoma City Ford dealer and oil-company executive, moved into the newly created job of board chairman of the $34 million Braniff Airways, Inc. Named president of Braniff was Charles E. Beard, 53, succeeding Airline Pioneer Thomas E. Braniff, who died in a private-plane crash in Louisiana last week. Beard (no kin to the late Historian Charles A. Beard) came to Braniff in 1935, has been executive vice president
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan .stands 6 ft. 3 in., and once weighed 220 Ibs. He has a martial beak of a nose and a clipped white beard. Though at 63 he is ailing, he used to look capable of tearing a bullock apart with his hands. For the past 30 years, Ghaffar Khan has practiced and preached nonviolence. He was Gandhi's chief convert among the Moslems, and in the rugged Khyber Pass region he is still known as "the Frontier Gandhi...
...life, Whistler was part scorpion (and sometimes attached a scorpion's tail to the butterfly in his monogram), a terror of the drawing rooms. He had a bit of a beard beneath his lower lip, which he used to tug at for inspiration when cornered. Then he would open his mouth and paralyze the opposition with a quip. When Critic John Ruskin dared criticize Whistler's paintings too harshly, the devilish dandy sued him for libel. Among the evidence presented at the trial was Whistler's Batter sea Bridge (opposite). Looking at it. the judge made...