Word: scalped
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Having spent four years persuading the American woman to chop her hair close to the scalp, the capricious rulers of fashion (familiarly known as They) were now insisting, of course, that hair had to be longer...
...school kids in the Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie (pop. 32,000) were having their heads examined last week. And with good reason: the Soo had been hit by a raging epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp). Of 5,712 elementary schoolchildren, 1,300 had ringworm; so had 150 preschool moppets and 64 youths and adults. On streets and playgrounds, every bobbing head was topped with a white cotton skullcap, compulsory for schoolchildren, strongly recommended for all others. It was the severest ringworm epidemic ever recorded in Canada...
Loud Screams. The scalp was scrubbed, and then began the most painful part of the treatment: under the revealing lamp, infected hairs were pulled out with tweezers. In spite of loud screams echoing down the halls, this Spartan procedure was necessary because the fungus penetrates the follicle clear down to the hair root. After a hot salt compress to open up the pores, the children had a detergent solution (Bacticide) rubbed into their scalps...
Lost Chords. In Los Angeles, Jacqueline Sisson, suing her hairdresser, declared that scalp burns suffered while getting her hair done had "impaired, retarded and affected her psychic powers to read musical tunes in the minds of her audience...
...into Cambridge yesterday and before today's sun sets behind the Harvard Stadium teepee, the Big Green should have won its first victory on its ill-fated 1950 warpath. For the first time in the 54-year history of the Harvard series, Dartmouth enters the Stadium without a previous scalp but victory should be the Tribe's today...