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...five joined a U.S.S.R. bacteriologist, "investigated" the charges as a six-man commission, and found them "true." Shiniest button on the Reds' false front was Cambridge University's Professor Needham, whose summary of achievements fills 5½ in. in the British Who's Who, and who reads and writes Chinese (he was once attached as a scientist to the British embassy in Chungking). But Needham himself has admitted that the commission operated unscientifically...
White spends about half of each year preparing next year's circus. Betweentimes he spreads himself on Broadway, has designed the costumes for such hit musicals as Oklahoma!, Carousel, High Button Shoes, Bloomer Girl, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hazel Flagg. For this year's circus. White went full-out on four huge production numbers: an aerial ballet featuring 60 girls suspended in mid-air playing Indian Love Call on little glockenspiels, a horsy period piece called "Derby Day Honeymoon," a red, white & blue finale with the expansive title, "Americana, U.S.A.," and the main spectacle-"Candy Land" (see sketches...
Stuffy still recalls how Eddie Collins of the Red Sox kept a wad of gum on the button of his cap until he had two strikes against him. Rip Sowell of the Pirates would never go to shortstop position without touching third, and Tris Speaker, centerfielder for the Bosox, would construct a neatly drawn line in front of the plate each time he came up to bat. Stuffy has a lot of respect for a good superstition...
...button drape from the Robert Hall racks...
...imposing, but he went on building his case. "It's all caused by congestion underneath the follicle layer--he pointed to his overgrown follicle wood. Our treatments will clean out that congestion and revitalize your hair." He walked over to a fluoroscope device on one wall and pressed a button. A translucent projection of amass of blood vessels and a cross section of a solitary, but evidently from his description, healthy hair lit up one wall. Another switch and another drawing appeared, this time a sickly follicle--my type from what I could gather...