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...Marie, Ontario, 715 youngsters out of the city's 6,000 elementary-school children trooped back to classes last week with their heads covered by white skull caps. After twelve months of battle, the "Soo" is winning its fight against an epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp) among its youngsters (TIME, Nov. 3), but has still not been able to stamp out the stubborn disease...
Meanwhile, Patsy L. Nicholas, a Brighton engineer, was nursing a cut scalp in Cambridge City Hospital. Nicholas and a companion were riding in one car at Broadway and Cambridge Streets, while the business school students and an auto salesman were in another. The members of one of the cars--it was not quite clear which-turned a spotlight on the other. All the occupants got out, and in the ensuing argument Nicholas was clouted...
...Congressman (windy manner, frock coat and black bow tie), Klan-backed "Tom-Tom" stood for higher cotton prices and "white supremacy," inveighed against "the liquor interests," "the wolves of Wall Street," New York's "Roman-Tammany system," and Catholicism,* which he represented as out to i) get his scalp, 2) plunge the U.S. into war with Mexico. In 1928, rather than support Catholic Al Smith for the presidency, Heflin bolted the Democratic Party, stumped for Hoover, was defeated two years later. His proudest achievement: sponsoring the bill legalizing Mother...
Senator Richard M. Nixon, Republican of California: "President Truman has given them just what they were after-MacArthur's scalp...
...supply them, scores of companies began to make electric eyebrow tweezers, hair dryers, lotions, face and scalp vibrators, automatic foot and leg massagers, and hundreds of other products, right down to special beauty-parlor furniture. Last year $100 million worth of such products were made, including about 10,000 permanent-wave machines, about 45,000 dryers, and more than 600 million pads used for protecting the scalp while the hair is being waved...