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...chaevye (literally: "for tea") gratuities may still be refused in the provinces, Moscow is full of waiters, doormen, taxi drivers, barbers, grocery delivery girls and manicurists who do not spurn, but come to expect and even to exact the servant's tribute. Komsomolskaya Pravda told of barbers who "scalp" non-tippers to show them up as "cheapskates," and Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income now comes from spraying overpriced Eau de Cologne on customers, thus raising their bill for a 2-ruble haircut to 10 rubles. Soviet Culture printed a cloakroom...
...winning break came on the second-half kickoff, when Carl Pescosolido produced a 93-yard runback to provide the decisive tally in a 10-7 victory. As the Crimson put it, "Outrushed, outpassed, and outplayed by the Indians, the Harvard Varsity football team left the Stadium with a whole scalp only by providential intervention...
Headline Echoes. Will the opposition members take the scalp of an able man who committed an indiscretion 14 years before? Can the obstinate President be persuaded by men who love their country above party that the nomination should be withdrawn?. When Senator Brigham Anderson of Utah, whose subcommittee is holding the hearings, discovers that Leffingwell has indeed lied about his past, it would seem that Advise and Consent has already gone on too long with echoes from a decade of news headlines. But Author Drury now shows how vindictive his challenged President can be, and how vicious a Senator touched...
...York City's fashionable West Side Tennis Club (in Forest Hills, Queens) because of his race (TIME, July 20). Club President Wilfred Burglund, the Manhattan public relations man who had told Bunche that the club excludes Negroes and Jews, resigned last week amidst public clamor for his singed scalp. Then the club's governors were moved to announce: "It is the policy of the club to consider and accept members without regard to race, creed or color." But Dr. Bunche had no plans to push Ralph Jr. through the West Side's newly opened door...
...Interviewer Joyce Davidson, guesting on NBC's Today, provoked impassioned cries for her blonde scalp by remarking that "like most Canadians, I am indifferent to the visit of the Queen...