Word: scalped
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Hollywood, which is no place to be bald in, is an excellent place for people who claim they can cure baldness. Red-haired Patricia M. Stenz runs a hair and scalp clinic across the street from Hollywood's "Radio City" at Sunset and Vine. She has a theory that all baldness is caused by a fungus. A bald head, says Miss Stenz, is something like athlete's foot, at the other end of the body; it runs in families, as athlete's foot does, not through heredity but because sons catch it from their fathers...
composed of 96 round cards divided into eight suits, the Hindustani pack is called "Gunja-Kha," which means "relieving scalp." The suits bear such names as Ghulam, or slave, end Burart, or royal diploma, and the king, by keeping his hands busy playing cards, was unable to scratch his head or beard, keeping baldness at a minimum...
Southern politicians were still circling the White House like Sioux menacing a covered wagon. A lot of the hallooing after Harry Truman's scalp came from men who simply enjoyed listening to the echo, but last week the President heard one statement which hurt. Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, former Democratic whip of the House, and hitherto an ardent Truman supporter, demanded that the President remove himself as a candidate...
...last time John Harvard went south, he came back on a stretcher. Next week in the person of four teams, he heads for Dixie again and if the Crimson squads win seven contests among them, John will have escaped with his scalp...
Dartmouth's squad, nothing dazzling at the beginning of the present campaign, has mellowed into a league scalp-raiser in the past month...