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...suicide pact, and the pair drive into a nearby river. Frantz's tape-recorded voice goes on sermonizing in the library: "The century might have been a good one, had not man been watched from time immemorial by the cruel enemy who had sworn to destroy him, that hairless, evil, flesh-eating beast -man himself...
Audrey Hepburn hardly makes a move without Famous, her tiny Yorkshire. Liz Taylor takes her Pekingese and three Yorkshires almost everywhere. Tenor Franco Corelli travels with a poodle. Actor Rex Harrison brings a basset hound, and Gypsy Rose Lee has even smuggled her Chinese hairless puppy onto an airplane in her bra. With all that precedent, it was hardly a surprise that Mr. and Mrs. Everyman got the idea too. The result is that now Rover is roving all over the world nearly as much as his owner...
Shuffling into Yankee Stadium in 1961, a hairless has-been at 35, discarded by San Francisco, Quarterback Yelberton Abraham Tittle passed the New York Giants to three straight Eastern Division titles and won a spread all his own in the N.F.L. record book. But 1964 was the year the Bald Eagle didn't have it. Weary and often injured, he wound up next to last in the passing statistics, and the Giants plummeted to last place. So after 17 years in pro football, Y.A., now 38, announced that he was folding his wings. "I never wanted...
...vulgarly handsome, he had a way of swaggering up to some pitiful little twerp and sneering down at him as he sucked reflectively on a cigar the size of a fungo bat and stroked a big, black, bushy mustache that seemed to demand insultingly: "Howzat for virility, ya hairless squirt...
...Reporting on hairy ear rims around the globe at the Rome genetics meeting last week, Dr. R. Ruggles Gates of London showed that the werewolfish trait is sexlinked. Only men have hairy ear rims, and nearly all of their sons inherit growths. On the other hand, their daughters have hairless ears, and so do those daughters' sons. The chromosome responsible: Y, the male sex determinant...