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...cries for Sir David's scalp grew more and more shrill. The executive committee of the Educational Institute of Scotland demanded his resignation, and the schoolmasters of Leeds did the same. In Birmingham, a mass meeting of teachers recommended that all official functions attended by the Minister be boycotted...
...town when they staged Russia's first jam session at the staid Astoria Hotel. As one member of the cast put it: "The band was doing up Cherokee. It was strictly from the cob. Man, it was square! Lorenzo Fuller [an alternate Sportin' Life] decided to go scalp the piano. Ned Wright [Robbins] felt the spirit striving and took everybody to the sunny side of the street . . . One of the Russian cats got the spirit and did a buck and wing routine that flipped everybody's wig. Everything was copacabana, just like the tree-all root...
...week's end, a pro-Ferger United Employees' Committee for 'Continued Success & Employee Control, led by Circulation Boss Lawrence Nash, suggested a review of top-management salaries and closer consultation between executives and staffers. Snapped Jim Ratliff: "Their platform is the one I gave my scalp...
...thousands of shiny pates last year when Glasgow's Dr. John Kelvin, 53, reported that two patients had grown hair on their bald heads after taking tablets he had prescribed for cramps (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954)- Possible explanation for the growth: the drug (Roniacol) improved circulation of the scalp by its vasodilating (artery-widening) action. No one was more excited than a Manhattan businessman with a full head of hair: Lynn Robert Akers, 35, president of 21 Akers Hair and Scalp Clinics scattered throughout the U.S. He promptly flew to Glasgow, offered Dr. Kelvin $10,000 a year...
...incising coats of arms on the gentry's silver plate), wandering about town like so many young men, knowing himself to be a genius, but not knowing what to be a genius about. A tavern brawl gave him his cue. A Sunday drinker clobbered another over the scalp with a quartern tankard. In 18th century terms it was a "laughable subject," what with the man all bloody and grimacing with pain. Hogarth made a sketch that delighted his fellow apprentices, and thus he found his life work. He could do this stuff on copper, and copperplate prints of current...