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Texas' Long Tom Connally, his statesmanlike grey mane slicked for the occasion, rose to open the Great Debate, prepared to defend his Resolution pledging the U.S. to participate in the affairs of the postwar world. But Connecticut's hardheaded, independent Senator John Danaher demanded the floor. John Danaher, his Republican tongue bulging large in his cheek, wanted to propose an amendment, denning word by word the vague terms of the Connally measure. Items...
...didn't hear him till 1907, in Symphony Hall, Boston, when Rosenthal, of the stocky, powerful figure, eagle-beaked, massive-jawed, with black mane and Kaiser mustache, played the Liszt E-flat concerto, and Karl Muck leered over him on the conductor's stand, snapping the chords from the orchestra as a Mephistopheles would crack a whip over his minions, and the two played into each other's hands with a deviltry beyond words. Hah! The intrepidity, the dash, the saber and spur of it, the wild exhilaration, the reckless mastery of the whole business...
Fifty years ago Paderewski made his U.S. debut, a glamorous figure with a red-gold mane which excited the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the day. Red-blooded males snorted at "this Paderooski," but everywhere he drew adoring throngs, from whom policemen sometimes had to rescue...
...with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three inches of their life, dyed them greenish-gold (with an aquamarine rinse), and tucked them into a monkish halo. ∙∙ Hedy Lamarr also had her long mane shortened, but only for private showing. ∙∙ Baby-faced Simone Simon joined the rush for U.S. citizenship, applied for her first papers...
...were sitting in the park because only there could they get away from purring telephones and the endless shuffling of papers. One of them, lean, very tall (6 ft., 3½-in.), with a middle-parted mane of thick, snowy hair, cool, amused, shrewd eyes, was dressed conservatively and expensively, his crossed legs revealing old-fashioned high-lace shoes, with a boot pull at the back. The other, of medium height, fat, young, voluble, looked like an aggressive laundry bag; he was dressed as if various garments had been thrown on him as he hurried past...