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...Manhattan, Macy's set up a special wig department, which was jammed with more than 1,000 women a day clamoring for synthetic (all-Dynel) wigs, at $49.50. Helena Rubinstein christened a posh new room the Wig-Wig. Max Miller, president of the Joseph Fleischer custom wig company, opened ten new consulting rooms to handle the flood of buyers. Max Factor in Hollywood had to set up folding chairs in the halls to handle capacity crowds. The Elizabeth Arden Salon in Chicago extended its usual three-week wait on wig orders to two months...
...human scalp, a wig's base produces no natural oil. Thus a dry cleaner can do every six weeks what a hairdresser has to do once a week; and best of all, only the hair sits under the dryer. Still, $250 is a fairly stiff price (really fine custom wigs can cost as much as $1,500) and at first wig-wearers consisted mostly of actresses, among them Shirley Booth, Judy Holliday. Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor (who lost nine of her twelve wigs in last year's Bel Air fire...
...Mercedes has acquired the pint-sized DKW, and English Ford has turned its Zephyr and Zodiac lines into luxury cars. In a curious alliance of two state-controlled companies, France's Renault and Italy's Alfa Romeo plan joint dealerships which will be able to offer the customer everything from a spartan $1,100 Renault R4 to a $20,000 custom-built Alfa sports coup...
...have a hand in choosing their spiritual chiefs. Speaking at Massachusetts' College of the Holy Cross to a group of lay Catholics, Father Walsh pointed out that the laity had some hand in electing bishops for the first 1,000 years of the church's history; the custom was abolished during the Middle Ages, after nobles and kings misused the people's electoral privilege by putting forward their own relatives and friends as candidates for vacant sees...
Describing Peabody as "a Yankee Democrat," Howe declared that he is "beyond reproach for the party's follies and sins." He especially lauded Peabody's custom of turning to members of the academic world for advice without engaging in misty scholasticism. "'Chub' Peabody has surrounded himself with informed and disinterested persons," said Howe...