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...done in the name of mental health. Sammy Davis Jr., wearing a Sitting Bull headpiece, chased Frank Sinatra across the nightclub stage waving a tomahawk and shrieking, "You call me paleface one more time, I scalp you." Milton Berle promised that a coming act would be Beverly Aadland singing, My Momma Done Sold Me, then paid tribute to Sinatra: "It's very gracious of Frank to take a night out of his sex life to be here." Starlet Juliet Prowse, who takes up much of Sinatra's life these days, writhed through a smoldering dance number. Marge Champion...
...stood only 5 ft. 3 in.), D'Annunzio wore his school uniform with such an air of authority that soldiers saluted him. At 19 he was a journalist and cafe ornament in Rome. At 20 he married a lady of noble name, and soon afterward acquired a scalp wound in a saber duel with a literary enemy. Thereafter, his luxuriant chestnut hair fell out. leaving the poet bald-but romantically so. A marginal growth of beard, big, bulging blue eyes and a glorious voice rounded out his romantic panache. Through all this persisted a galloping logorrhea...
Millions of Latin Americans last week saw the President of the U.S., arms flung wide in greeting, flower petals stuck to his pink and sweating scalp, a delighted grin on his face, as he rode down stately boulevards, through exotic cities, among multitudes of strange people. And somehow, whenever he made contact with the people, Dwight Eisenhower's radiant personality touched the Latinos, and the millions cheered. In the warmth of the uproarious welcome for the norteamericano President, old animosities and old suspicions melted perceptibly...
Clip Joint. In Florence, Italy, tired of finding hairs in his soup, Pasquale Martoni sheared his wife's flowing tresses to scalp level, protested when haled to court for assault: "It was only a matter of hygiene...
Splitting Hairs. In Spartanburg, S.C., police submitted a report after taking Joe Grier to the hospital: "Lacerated scalp. Ax fell off wall and hit Joe on the head. Joe's ax. Joe's head. No complaints. Investigation complete...