Baldness as Fortune in a Humorous Memoir Chapter
In this excerpt from Chapter 17, Elmer Wheeler riffs on hair loss as a path to success. A physician advocates psychosomatic cures, urging bald individuals to embrace their condition and use it as a business advantage. The narrator muses on famous bald figures and the idea that baldness could propel one to leadership, urging readers to stay upbeat and present baldness proudly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dee
Steinmetz
Einstein
Caesar
Shakespeare
Tke
Mark Twain
Handsome
Business Brains, Inc
Ike
Eleher
Man Wins Close Race In New Buffalo Township Election
Frank A. Castelluccio won the township highway commissioner post in a write‑in effort after discovering no other candidates on the ballot. He chose his own name with the belief others would run, though none did. the job pays nothing, which Castelluccio notes he accepts. The piece ends with a stray fact about Moliere’s real name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Buffalo
Mich
Frank A. Castelluccio
Castelluccio
Six Teens Die In Painted Post Auto Crash
Six teenagers bound for a swimming party were killed in a country road crash near Wan New York Saturday night. A seventh youngster was injured. Three of the dead were to graduate tonight from Painted Post High School. The car swerved to avoid a left turning vehicle, struck a tree and toppled into an embankment. Richard Gumberts 17 was hospitalized.
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Painted Post
N.Y
Painted Post High School
Wan
Roland Leinhos
Jack van Deventer
Dorothy
Patricia Bon
Mary A. Murray
Stanley Bartlett
Richard Gumberts
van Deventer
Bartlett
Gumberts
William E. Cusworth
First Baptist Church
Milk to Cheese: Five Quarts for One Pound American
A food note explains the traditional ratio for making American cheese, detailing that about five quarts of milk are needed to yield one pound of cheese, illustrating dairy processing efficiency.
Foundations Funds Support Carolinas Colleges
Checks totaling 4.245 million from the Foundation will fund faculty salary raises at colleges in North and South Carolina and across the nation. Duke University receives 1.5375 million, part of its 2.9425 million Foundation total to date. 630 privately supported colleges will share the nationwide 130.1725 million grant, based on undergraduate instruction costs for 1954-55.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolinas
North Carola
Carolina
Duke University
Duke
New York
DEW Line Spans Arctic to Provide Early Warning
The DEW line comprises radar bases from Alaska to Baffin Island along the 70th parallel. These stations will send Canada and the United States a four to six hour warning in case of a North Pole attack.
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Alaska
Baffin Island
Greenland
Canada
United States
North Pole
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Elmer Wheeler
Doc
Moliere
Jean Baptiste Polquelin
NTE
SEARS
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Main High Point, N.C
Ann Page
A&p
A&p Frozen
Baby Limas
A&p Concentrate
B.bgoodrich
Jane Parker
Peg
SAT
America’s Foremost
Ccc
High Point, N.C
B. F. Goodrich Store
N. Main Street
Carolina Tire
S. Wrenn Street
Buick
Dodge
Hudson
Mercury
Wash
Olds
Pontiec
Cheyster
Packard
Cadillac
Lincoln
Packerd
Begoodrich Battery
Lis
PRG
Thomasville, N. C
B. F. Goodrich
Salem Street
Texaco
THE
Safe Driver League
B.E Goodrich Tires
Acowona
London
Derry
N. H
New England
DR. C. D. Dawkins
Wright
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