Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trend, maybe a revolution," marveled Barber Virgil Sherman Holycross, 59, patient servant of teen-age fads for 35 years. "Maybe they all want to look like they're learning to build a Sputnik." "It's sort of like a compromise between being a punk and an egghead," explained Central High Senior Larry Cornine, 17. "Personally I don't want to look like either." But Forrest Reno, 19, recent ducktail convert to the Princeton cut, plays it cool. "How else can you comb your hair with the palm of your hand." he asks, "and have it look...
...Senator Thye, 62, two-term Eisenhower Republican incumbent, had a great personal following of fellow Scandinavians, fellow Lutherans, fellow farmers; the D.F.L.'s challenger Gene McCarthy, onetime St. John's University economics professor and ten-year Congressman, was 1) a Catholic, and 2) an all-too-arch egghead type from St. Paul who might just get massacred by Ed Thye in the farm counties. The D.F.L. decided that folksy Governor Freeman, a lead-pipe cinch for reelection, would give up some of his anticipated 200,000 majority to concentrate on working for Gene McCarthy in what Master Planner...
...interview after a Friday appearance on WJAR-TV, in "The World Around Us" series, Tillich expressed his opinion that the violence was an indication of a search for a scapegoat, and a rebellion against the "egghead...
...going back to school because" contest conducted by radio station WIND, Chicago [TIME, Sept. 8], is heartening and timely. Ellen Goldsmith of suburban Glencoe, Ill. was the $100 grand prize winner. She is 14 and a high school freshman. Ellen is no egghead: she is active in scouting, athletic, a topflight camper, loves to jitterbug and is studying piano. I am a proud grandpa...
...onetime Minnesota Republican state chairman who revered Teddy Roosevelt, Mac Moos, 42, lightly labels himself "a full-blooded Bull Moose Republican," is an energetic mixture of egghead author and practical politician. While writing a history of the Republican Party, he worked up to Republican Party chief in Baltimore, later helped out the White House speechwriting team on a part-time basis. In one sense, he has a running start on Eisenhower as far as the 1958 congressional campaign is concerned: the principal point of his Politics, Presidents and Coattails, published in 1952, was that a President cannot easily transfer...