Word: haired
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...news staff meanwhile had crammed itself into a smaller hold on 26th Street, where there was hardly enough room for its glamorous Spielmeisters to comb their hair. Office boys bustled about dressed up like nightclub waiters. The rest of NBC's first team-including Regional Reporters Sander Vanocur, Frank Mc-Gee, Merrill Mueller and, especially, John Chancellor was equally strong...
...three weeks. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, said Julie Andrews, "are the loneliest men in town." Acting as their own producers, with $3,000,000 of other people's money and their own reputations to safeguard, they have to worry about everything from the color of Julie Andrews' hair (too light) to King Pellinore's visor (will not fall shut on cue) to the inner mists of the Arthurian theme...
Aging into his late teens, Fritz burned out his evening hours moving from party to party, playing everything from Liszt to Lehar. Slender, handsome, with dark blond curly hair, he was cocky, arrogant, and popular with girls, all sorts of girls. He declares that he had his first sexual experience at 2 and his first affair at nine with his governess ("I thought I was abnormally precocious until I read Kinsey"). By 17, in the words of a conservatory friend, he was a "sexual democrat." Once, having outrun his credit at a brothel, he paid off his debt by entertaining...
This dating system, which Libby checked on ancient objects of known age, such as human hair from Egyptian tombs, has been fabulously successful. It is now used to date objects as diverse as charcoal from neolithic campfires, and trees killed by Ice Age glaciers. It won Libby his well-deserved Nobel Prize...
Libby's laboratory career was interrupted by his service on the Atomic Energy Commission. Although he sturdily rebutted some of the less knowledgeable, most hair-raising claims about the horrors of atomic fallout, Libby did not enjoy his AEC job. He never saw an atomic explosion, and may never see one. Moreover, as he said last week of his AEC experience, "There was constant strain and tension there...