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...customer in Mr. Eckhard's barbershop in San Francisco's elegant Fairmont Hotel was turning hot under the collar, both literally and figuratively. Proprietor Eckhard Helmholz, brandishing a wide-toothed bone comb in one hand and a flaming 10-in. jeweler's torch in the other, was preparing to go to work, while cooing assurances that "it isn't nearly as bad as it smells." It turns out to be the blowtorch cut, the hottest innovation in California coiffure circles since Warren Beatty in Shampoo...
...factor and elasticity of hair-printed on special reference cards. Says Helmholz: "We leave nothing to chance." Then the hair is washed and scissor-trimmed by aides, after which Helmholz himself arrives, torch in hand. Moving it from right to left across the customer's head, using a comb as a baffle, he burns off a few strands at a time, starting at the front of the crown and working down to the earlobes and around the back. The acrid stench of burning hair fills the air. After ten minutes of work, Helmholz shuts off his torch, shampoos...
Letty, I told you you should have come with me. Women who are delegates and the wives of delegates can have a free hair comb-out if they have to go on television or make some kind of appearance. I wonder if New York will really go broke after spending so much for the convention. But Comptroller Harrison Goldin says that the city will contribute $3.5 million and take in better than $20 million...
...defamed the character of the subjects of their stories. The sheer size of the corrections column corroborates this fact. And the consistency of this column points to the fact that each day's paper is not allowed to "rest in peace," rather, it is searched with a fine-toothed comb in order to correct any and all misinformation that anyone with a passing acquaintance with the facts of the story would have been outraged to read. As an example, we cite the case of one Morris K. Udall, who, on the day before the Massachusetts primary, was accused of having...
...revenge is sweet like honey which drips from the comb," then the defeated Crimson has developed quite a sweet tooth. Wilson has had his team of five faculty and 13 graduate students practicing every week since September...