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Word: haired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Nicholas Stanton, 42, who spearheaded the CBS color fight, stands just under 6 ft. and weighs 175 Ibs. His expression is at once attentive and stolid; his strong jaw is often clamped firmly on a pipestem. A certain lack of facial animation, together with his carefully parted, yellow-blond hair, have led wags to call him "the Veronica Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At the End of the Rainbow | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...only soldiers were expected to live on . . ." Sympathizing with civil servants who dwell in "bedsitting rooms,"' the Times asks: "Is it really possible to entertain with any degree of elegance in a room that contains one's pyjamas, and one's butter ration, one's hair oil and one's Empire sherry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Your Head Is on Fire | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...performance of "spirit songs" following the ritual killing of two infants: shortly before Alberts and his wife arrived, a village woman had given birth to twins, and according to a tribal superstition which holds that twins are evil, they had been buried alive. Alberts' recording is hair-raising in its intensity. In Ouagadougou, between the Gold Coast and Timbuktu, as guest of the Sorbonne-educated emperor, he recorded the palace orchestra, which included such instruments as the one-stringed rebec-a crude violin-and huge calabash drums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tremendous Magic | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Slightly frayed at the edges, and beer-spattered, the CRIMSON's camel-hair welcome mat will again squat at its 14 Plympton Street doorstep tonight to greet latecomers to the fall competitions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doors Are Still Ajar For Comp Latecomers | 11/30/1950 | See Source »

...tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.* Boyd, an Ohio-born laborer's son, went to California in 1915 because he yearned for money, fame, pretty girls and fun. He was a husky, handsome, good-natured youth with wavy platinum hair, and he hoped the motion-picture business would provide all. It did. He married a Boston heiress, whom he met while toiling as the chauffeur of a for-hire car; when divorce ended the union a year and a half later, he had accumulated such a handsome wardrobe that Producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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