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...when he was operating a ladies-only establishment before World War II. Men came in and asked if he would cut their hair. Says Bayard: "Later, when I was in the Naval Air Corps, I saw how vain some of my shipmates were, always standing in front of the mirror combing their hair. I knew I was right." At Bayard's Studio, a man can get his hair cut and styled, shampooed and reset in about 45 minutes for $3.75. A permanent wave is $12 to $15; lash and eyebrow tint, $1.75; toupees run from...
...well blocked, and Basehart and Bosco mesh wonderfully. Their pacing and their subtle give-and-take are just right. And Basehart times his "Ay, no; no, ay" to perfection. This is a moving spectacle indeed. There remains only for the prop department to come up with a better hand-mirror than an allwooden imitation; the best actor in the world could not dash it to the floor with the glass "crack'd in a hundred shivers...
...economic troubles mirror the nation's political plight. The federation is fast falling apart because of racial conflict between its 300,000 whites and 7,000,000 Africans. Nyasaland, under fervid African Nationalist Hastings Banda, is ready to secede from the federation, and secession ist pressure is steadily mounting in Northern Rhodesia, where the United National Independence Party of wiry, in tense Kenneth Kaunda is expected to win handsomely in next October's elections. With Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia gone, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia would be left with no hinterland in which to market its manufactured goods...
...British press is as censored as most censored presses, though in an arbitrary and indeterminate way. We employ on the Mirror and [Sunday] Pictorial three fulltime and eleven part-time barristers to avoid printing libels, breaches of parliamentary privilege, breaches of the Official Secrets Acts, or committing contempt of court. Over the years, the area of operation of these newspaper hazards has been steadily widened until criticism of any kind is becoming impossibly risky...
...Personally, I think this drastic curtailment of the liberty of our press is against the public interest. This country is too smug, complacent and sluggish, and pointed criticism might do much to get us moving again." Added Cecil King, whose giant Daily Mirror (circ. 4,561,876), biggest newspaper in the Western world, stands as impressive evidence that he knows what Britons want to read: "But if, on consideration, the British public wants this censorship, of the press, at least they should realize how much of what they should know is not printed...