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...House of Commons dining hall, London's top-ranking master barber (the guild boss of hairdressers, perfumers and wigmakers) laid all about him with cutting comments on the hair styles of leading politicians, who often look, cried he, "like corn crakes [a short-billed rail] in a gale!" Of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS): "He ruins the whole effect by wings of hair sticking out on either side of his face and by a mustache that one would hardly call elegant." Of Laborites Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan: "Quite content to be permanently untidy about the ears...
...must push ahead much faster than AEChairman Strauss is willing to go. Last week, AEC was trying to work out a compromise plan to supply more funds to private industry for research and development. The need is bigger than that. One comprehensive plan was laid out recently by Willis Gale, chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., which will operate the big Dresden power station in 1960. Chairman Gale dismisses the public- v. private-power argument by prefacing his plan with the suggestion that Government aid go both to public and private power combines in roughly the same proportion...
Snake Specialty. With the boom in vet medicine has come a tendency to specialization. In metropolitan centers where the trade is concentrated, some vets practice exclusively on dogs or cats or birds. Los Angeles' Dr. Norman Gale has made a name as a specialist in the complaints of snakes, turtles, tortoises, lizards and frogs. (Gale has performed Caesareans on two snakes; he could not save the mothers, but did not lose a single wriggling baby.) Burbank's Dr. J. Bradley Crundwell gets the feathered trade, mostly parrots, parakeets and canaries...
...entertainment "in the family." Now the family is on TV. Pat Boone brought his daughter Cheryl Lynn, 3, on his show long past her bedtime; the James Masons dragged their daughter Portland, 8, along to Dean Martin's show; and in filming her TV entry for this week, Gale Storm warbled to eleven-month-old Susanna, who promptly went to sleep on camera. Last week Frank Sinatra, 39, sang with his bobby-soxer daughter Nancy, 17, whom his scripters described as having the "sweet, cool disposition of a strawberry soda." Says Frankie: "A bit of show-business exposure goes...
...storms that rage about the heads of Washington officials, none matches in intensity and duration the high, fine gale that whistles about Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Adding to the airy velocity last week was the voice of Nebraska's Republican Congressman A. L. Miller, who called on Benson to resign from the Eisenhower Cabinet for the good of the Republican Party. The demand was not surprising, for Benson has nearly as many hostile Republican as Democratic critics...