Word: sideburn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Richard Nixon necessarily dislikes sideburns, it's just that those who wear them rarely turn out to be his kind of people. Back when his staff first settled into the White House, the only man around sporting face feathers was former Kansas Congressman Bob Ellsworth, a presidential adviser who has since gone to Brussels as U.S. Ambassador to NATO. John Sears took Ellsworth's place as the sole representative of the sideburn set around the West Wing corridors, but by last fall he had lost out to Harry Dent as the White House political operative. The unsheared...
...well, sounding off. Buzzie Bavasi, the Dodgers' general manager, even gave you a plaque that was inscribed "To be seen-stand up. To be heard-speak up. To be appreciated-shut up." Now that you're 31 and there's a grey hair in your right sideburn and you're making $100,000 a year and you own four race horses, I guess you've probably calmed down quite...
When a Hollywood type says, "I see you've been to Sebring," he doesn't mean the sports-car races. He is talking about Jay Sebring, 28, the Alabama-born boy who has become dictator of the nape-line, tyrant of the sideburn, and keeper of the keys to baldpate for a list of notables that begins with Frank Sinatra and ends with Bobby Darin (they have a similar problem) and includes Milton Berle, Marlon Brando and Sammy Davis...