Word: pated
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Like the "veal" on another menu, the "Hungarian goulash" around the corner, the prime roasts and shepherd's pies at still other restaurants, the lady's pate had been, a few days earlier, a long-legged foal romping after a chestnut mother not long retired from a dairy cart. Last week it was still illegal in Britain to kill horses under seven years old for food or serve it in restaurants if other meat was available...
...announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed a handkerchief over his shaven pate. "Ai-yah," he groaned...
Masquerader. He spent six months preparing to "pass." To stain his skin, he tried walnut juice, iodine, Argyrol, even an infusion of mahogany bark. When nothing worked, he shaved his pate and settled for three weeks in the Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
...past 25 years, McHugh has written over 500 successful songs, and he is still at it. At 53, his bald pate fringed with wispy grey hair, Jimmy looks like a well-fed friar. But he talks like a bobbysoxer. "In this business," says he, "you gotta stay contemporary. You gotta know what the kids are saying, and feel the rhythm they live by." To keep the rhythm, Jimmy still drops around to four or five Hollywood hotspots every night, waving cheery greetings to movie stars and bartenders. When bandleaders see him coming, they strike up his latest tunes. Jimmy...
...pinball industry is not the only one affected by the vacation migration. The barbershop trade is another. The Yalies may tell you that Harvard men never take haircuts, but they're wrong. It takes considerable skill to give that moss-grown look to pate after pate, and Cambridge barbers have it. They'll have to forget it until fall, however...