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...customer in Mr. Eckhard's barbershop in San Francisco's elegant Fairmont Hotel was turning hot under the collar, both literally and figuratively. Proprietor Eckhard Helmholz, brandishing a wide-toothed bone comb in one hand and a flaming 10-in. jeweler's torch in the other, was preparing to go to work, while cooing assurances that "it isn't nearly as bad as it smells." It turns out to be the blowtorch cut, the hottest innovation in California coiffure circles since Warren Beatty in Shampoo...
...Helmholz's tonsorial firing for effect is the result of complaints from customers whose fine, flyaway hair made them look more like Ben-Gurion than Ben Gazzara. Helmholz first tried to solve the problem with an old barber's trick: burning the ends with flaming candles. The knobby, stunted ends weighed down the hair and made it lie flat, all right, but Helmholz's Nob Hill clients waxed eloquent about tallow dripping down the backs of their necks. So Helmholz, 33, began experimenting with a small blowtorch and soon found it the perfect tool: "It is maneuverable...
...Fellowships in recent years are: William W. Foshay '31, David D. Lloyd '31, Garrett Birkhoff '32, Henry C. Hatfield '33, Peter Shuebruk '32, Meyer H. Abrams '34, Cesar L. Barber '35, Thomas H. Hunter '35, George L. Haskins '35, Sidney S. Alexander '36, Robert C. Hall '36, August C, Helmholz, 2nd '36, Neil G. Melone '37, and Peter R. Viereck...
Last year's undergraduate committee consisted of Perry J. Culver '37, Lowell House, chairman; John L. Clark '36, Kirkland House; George H. A. Clowes, Jr. '37, Leverett House; Forrest T. Foss '37, Dudley Hall; August C. Helmholz '36, Winthrop House; Richard B. Johnson '36, Adams House; Norman I. Trevelyan '36, Eliot House, and Winthrop H. Lee '36, Dunster House...
Today the Varsity singles lineup will be at full strength for the first time since the Dartmouth match on April 25. Divisionals kept Jim Thackera and Gordie Robertson from the Princeton fray and Carl Helmholz from the Columbia encounter...