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Baldness may mean virility, at least in later life. This hypothesis was baldly put forward by Anatomist James B. Hamilton of Yale, with detailed evidence. Hamilton himself has a goodly thatch of brown hair, but he is only...
...hair is almost white. It should be. As a Far Eastern correspondent for A.P., he retreated up the Yangtze with the Chinese Army, had enough narrow escapes to earn many a thread of silver. His experiences of the past fortnight entitle him to a snow-white thatch for the rest of his life. For Yates McDaniel watched the collapse of Singapore at close hand, filed a dispatch that might well have been the last farewell of a crack reporter...
General Lee is middle-sized, thin-lipped, softspoken. He sports the proudest, fiercest thatch of mustache this side of London. His eyes are a pale, noncommittal blue, the right pupil marred by a splotch of white-a mark left by a polo ball 20 years...
...Jesse Jones js huge-6 ft. 3 in. high, with great pale hands, small, blue-greenish eyes that are all green when he is ready to say "No," and a thick thatch of white hair still sprinkled with iron-color. His face can be kind, as he can be; but most times it is the kind of face a man gets who asks himself one practical question through all the hours of his life -a rigid, stern, rocklike face. Sometimes he looks like the Ten Commandments...
...scheme that then seemed grandiose and daring beyond any dim 1937 Republican dreams gradually took shape under the still-sandy thatch that belies McNary's age (65). When all but a few bumbling die-hards believed the President would have his way about the Court, McNary coolly visioned not only the bill's strangulation but the wide-open splitting of the Democratic Party and the eventual use of the conservative Democratic wing by Republican strategists in a practical coalition which could not merely harass Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal but stop it cold. The conception...