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...conveying everything from Early American to the 1950s. A card depicting a 40-year-old trolley car diner could be one of this year's bestsellers. The superbestseller, surpassing all other artists, remains Nostalgia-Monger Norman Rockwell. (A favorite is a horrified Junior watching Santa dropping his beard as he kisses Mom and thus reveals himself...
...cashiers described one gunman as being in his mid-30s with a beard and glasses, and the other as tall with broken teeth and a "lamb-chop beard...
...Sport and Shave Ken" is new this year; his package invites girls to "Shave him. He's athletic. He's all man." Shaving is accomplished by drawing on Ken's face with the "beard marker" and then removing the whiskers with water and a (safe for all ages) razor...
There is nothing obviously theatrical about the Allen Ginsberg who scutters among friends and fumbling technicians. One thirtyish woman in the audience, a "fan," fails to recognize him. Says she: "He looks like any college professor." Gone are the flowing beard, the Zapata mustache, the ragbag tatters. He wears a gray-blue business suit, a blue shirt, muted red-and-blue striped tie, dark socks, black shoes. Offstage he talks with the measured deliberation of a statesman-celebrity...
...AUTUMN of 1925, two Harvard professors were weekend guests together at the Connecticut home of a colleague. One was Lawrence Joseph Henderson, a professor of Biological Chemistry of whom George C. Homans and Orville T. Bailey, two former fellows who chronicled the Society's history, wrote. "[His] beard was red but his polities were vigorously conservative. His method in discussion [was] feebly imitated by the pike-driver." Today Homans is a professor of Sociology here...