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Director King Vido made some ghastly mistakes in planning details. While Richard Todd is holing up in some barren valley, he seems to be well supplied with hair tonic. Despite many days in the wilds, his pate is slick and well parted, his shirt perfectly tailored and his trousers finely creased. The ultimate example of Vido's misdirection is the marriage scene, in which the Justice of the Peace is equipped with a neon heart and arrow sign, twittering birds, and a record of Massenet's sickly-sweet "Meditation" from "Thais...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/8/1951 | See Source »

This month, Herblock will add another laurel to his balding pate when the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection buys several cartoons from his Corcoran show. He will thus become the first U.S. living cartoonist in the Rosenwald group of prints and etchings. The only other: Britain's David Low (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Block Party | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...head, The wrathful freshman, in a trice, Sent back another bigger slice, Which, being buttered pretty well, Made greasy work wher'er it fell, And thus arose a fearful battle, The coffee-cups and saucers rattle, The bread-bowls fly at woeful rate, And break full many a learned pate...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: College Has 300 Year Food Problem | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...Both universities threaten expulsion for anyone caught defacing property, but the custom has grown of turning anyone caught over to the freshmen, instead of the University police. Solemn rites are then performed on the victim, his hair is shaved off, and a bright red "S" painted on his pate...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...famous barber is Marinus van Rooijen, 49, who attributes his success to a secret fluid. His first patient was a young farmer named Klaas Tolner, who now has three inches of gleaming blond hair on his once egg-bald pate. "It's been cut three times already," Klaas grinned last week. "Now the girls will look at me again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: De Wonderkapper | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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