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Drowned in Giggles. Spectators were convulsed. George's own high-pitched chuckle frequently rang out. Even dour Senator Robert Taft occasionally rubbed his balding pate and smiled...
...blinked misty eyes, hesitated for words, said simply that he was "deeply touched." Then his easygoing composure returned. He rubbed his pate and quipped: "One thing I feel thoroughly certain of-it must be a bald peak...
...last week the guy was around, for all Chicago to see. Paul Hindemith, Nazi Germany's No. 1 musical outlaw, led 30 musicians through four of his more recent works. A crinkly-eyed, cherubic little (5 ft. 4 in.) man with mouse-colored hair haloing a pink pate, he looked more like a Benedictine friar than a musical anarchist. The anarchy was too much for some of the audience, who walked out at half time. But other martyrs who had come to give dissonance its due found the new Hindemith shockingly pleasant to listen...
Eleven years ago the Russians first conceived the idea of surmounting a soaring edifice of pillared concrete with a 328-ft. statue of Lenin in stainless steel (see cut). The crown of his bald pate was to tower 1,364 ft. above the nearby tomb in which his embalmed body lay. (New York's Empire State building would reach only to the statue's midriff...
...Play: three fantastically ugly puppets, representing bacteria, loosen a lower tooth, look for a ladder to knock out an upper. Enter the Dentist. Enter also a lady puppet in a tubelike dress, a gentleman with hog-bristled pate. Senorita La Pasta (toothpaste) and Senor El Cepillo (toothbrush) kill the dental gremlins. In a quick change of scene the magnified mouth vanishes, its possessor reappears. An apple-cheeked urchin named Comino, he promises to brush his teeth forever after. As the curtain drops, his audience presumably vows to do just as Comino does...