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...grand piano, his large head listing heavily to port, his horn rims and high forehead giving him a scholarly appearance. Before him stood four blowers on trumpet, trombone and saxophones, men whose personal styles seemed almost perfectly adapted to the Gulda idiom. During the evening's five half-hour sets they played a round dozen of Gulda's own compositions-pretty, slightly sentimental ditties with such names as Air from Other Planets, Dodo, Scruby, New Shoes-plus his arrangements of other men's tunes. Whatever the music, it had one mark of good jazz: it stimulated...
Bump on the Forehead. Cattle experts believe that the epidemic of dwarfism may be a result of breeding beef cattle for squat, spraddle-legged, "blocky" figures. This type wins prizes in shows and brings high prices at the stockyards, but animals selected for their blocky shape may be precisely the ones most likely to be carriers of dwarfism. The dwarfs are blocky too, and in other ways are caricatures of the beef-cattle ideal. An expensive, aristocratic bull may be the cause of a bad outbreak of dwarfism...
...calves are ever dwarfs. This takes a long time, so the cattle experts are trying hard to find some other system. Dr. Paul Wallace Gregory of the University of California at Davis has invented a "profilometer," an instrument to detect the slight bump on a bull's forehead which shows that he may be a carrier. Sometimes X rays are used to look for the "crumpled" vertebrae that carriers sometimes have. Chief obstacle to cleaning the herds of carriers is the cattle fanciers' love of low-slung critters likely to carry the sinister gene...
...black-and-white stock, tied on his red sash, buckled on his sword, and presented himself at Henry Raeburn's Edinburgh studio on York Place. As was his custom, Painter Raeburn squinted at his subject from under his heavy eyebrows, then boldly painted in Campbell's forehead, chin, nose and mouth directly on the canvas. Four or five visits later, the portrait (opposite) was done...
...restless couch, led him to a dim room where two plain coffins stood by the wall. Because the British insisted on burial in the prison courtyard, i.e., in unhallowed ground, the Orthodox priest could not hold service. He read briefly from the Bible, then kissed each man on the forehead. They died bravely, he said...