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...early-morning gathering place for a strange group of customers that ranges from cab drivers and nightwatchmen to bookies and brokendown prizefighters. To these customers, who are either starting their day or ending their night, Guy is just a small man with exceedingly bright eyes, bushy brows and a halo of white hair. They do not know his name, but he shares the casual nodding acquaintance of strangers who follow the same daily routine. Says Guy: "I wear my old work clothes, and they think I'm just an old coot on relief...
...Dentistry is in danger of becoming as overspecialized as medicine, complained the Chicago Dental Society, largely because "a specialty and high fees have become synonymous." To senior dental students the most alluring specialty is orthodontia, which, they believe, "has a halo of pure gold around...
...emerges the image of a man as well as the imprint of a mind. Little more than 5 ft. high, frail, bent, kindly Philosopher Whitehead had a bald, domed head framed by wispy white hair that made him look, in the words of one student, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." His bright blue eyes, set in a rosy-cheeked, unwrinkled face, had the candor of a child's. He spoke with a nicely articulated British accent, usually with deliberation, often with enthusiasm, and his mind had the freshness of youth. "Between the ages...
...know that tobacco smoke causes cancer," he pointed out, "but we do know there is a very clear cut association between those who in halo tobacco smoke and those who get lung cancer. I think that the American public must be told the facts as we are trying to tell them today...
Sweaters appear with every outfit this fall. At opposite poles in fashion are the bulky sweater and the baby sweater. the first recalls the never-missed "sloppy jo" of 1946; the baby sweater resembles swaddling clothes and is often trimmed with a halo of angora or a collar of flowered ribbon. Many are made with low-rounded necks. Especially popular is the scoop neck with the bite-size scallop...