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Vitiligo, or "piebald skin," is a disease that can be badly disfiguring in Negroes. It is characterized by smooth, light-colored patches of skin from which the natural pigment has disappeared. When it attacks the face, vitiligo sometimes produces a mottled, owlish visage. Victims usually cover the splotches with makeup or, in desperation, resort to tattooing-which rarely helps. Georgetown University's Dr. Robert Stolar last week announced that he got dramatic results from treating vitiliginous Negroes with a drug called monobenzyl ether of hydroquinone (MBEHQ). The drug's effect; it turns Negro skin white...
...fact that Brosnan wrote a book surprises no National Leaguer. Though he chews tobacco with the rest of the boys, Brosnan is one of the game's rarer types: he reads Rousseau and Nietzsche, puffs on a pipe, studies his fellows through owlish spectacles, and naturally is nicknamed "the Professor." He is fond of recalling how he once dumfounded a batter by declaring from the mound: "Us ne passeront...
Bevan's mission, as he saw it then, was the "bullying of tradition." and his bullying took a form unknown to the owlish Harold Laski or those doctrinaire Socialists, the Webbs. Once, when Churchill roared in exasperation, "There was a parliamentary democracy in this country before the Labor Party was born," Bevan roared back: "There wasn't. There was a Parliament but not a democracy. Your people were here and mine were not." He had no patience with Labor's own indecisive Ramsay MacDonald, "treading his resolutionary path from conference to conference." He also had words...
Today (NBC, 7-9 a.m.). The owlish Garroway continues to watch over the Democrats...
...gets an erotomaniacal glint in his eye. The boys' joint mission, he tells Janet, is to trap two svelte spies at a local Chinese restaurant. Enter a pair of bosomy blonde show girls. "What do you girls do?" asks Tony gingerly. "They sing and dance-like rabbits," answers owlish Dean...