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...turned out, this was nothing but a canard. Quitting was the last thing in the mind of Jack Blanton, a dignified, slender man with alert eyes and a bald-eagle head. One of the best-known country newspapermen in the U.S., Editor Blanton, winner of a University of Missouri award for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1939, was still at work, and was going to stay there for a long time...
...starting cry of "Ready all. Row!" Harvard Coach Tom Bolles clamped his battered felt hat down firmly on his bald head, wrapped his black slicker around him, stood high in the middle of the coaches' launch, gripping two stop watches. Big Jim McMillin, dressed in undersized Marine green jumpers, stood nervously beside him. For nearly a mile, as the launch dropped farther & farther behind, M.I.T. and Harvard matched strokes in third and fourth places on the pace set mainly by Pennsylvania and Princeton...
...have to look far for someone to succeed W. Stuart Symington as Secretary of the Air Force. The logical choice was the man who headed the President's Air Policy Commission in 1947 and produced the report recommending a 70-group Air Force. Last week the President nominated bald, sharp-eyed Thomas Knight Finletter for the job. Never a flyer himself, 56-year-old Tom Finletter comes from a socialite Philadelphia family and is a Manhattan corporation lawyer, a United World Federalist, an avid student of history and an expert in international economics. When appointed to the Air Commission...
Pooh-Bah: Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative...
...best male performance and radio's Mercedes McCambridge, playing her first screen part, took the Oscar for the best job by a supporting actress. The Academy voted the best-actress award (her second) to Olivia de Havilland for playing the jilted wallflower in The Heiress, and recognized a bald Dean Jagger's retread adjutant in Twelve O'Clock High as the best male supporting performance...