European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ever hit by a falling hair wit it the. By Philip h. Love Nana staff writer m whatever became of the girl wit soft hair the Silken tresses a fellow would like to run his fingers through the question struck me the other Day when quite inadvertently my hand brushed the top of a Young woman s head As we stopped simultaneously for a hand kerchief she d dropped. Her hair Felt like steel Wool. When i recoiled and looked at my fingers to see what damage had been done she said i know i know my husband com Plains about it All the time. But it s  style or no style i la Wager that every other red blooded american Man married or single feels As that girl s husband and i do a woman s hair should be As Poe Tcharles Graham Halpine put it finer than silk of the  to prove the Point i made an informal Survey among a representative group often ranging in age from 22 to 76. I like to ride around in my convertible with the top Down said the  like a girl whose hair blows with the wind. It would take a Hurricane to tousle most girls hair  the oldest proved somewhat  do they put on their hair anyway he demanded Concrete women Are hard headed enough without making their hair the same  what they put on their hair i gather from the to commercials is some sort of lacquer which is sprayed from aerosol cans. A fellow who likes to quote poetry waxed almost As indignant As the oldster can you imagine Stephen Foster dream ing of Jeanie with the Light Brown hair if it had been too stiff to be borne like a vapor on the summer Ai r the other night another Chap report &. Page 14 the stars and stripes de my Girlfriend leaned her head on my shoulder and it scratched my neck. When i complained she said it was no worse than my whiskers. But men can t Hel their whiskers and besides every girl knows they re scratchy. A Man does t expect a woman s head to feel like a  hair sprays came into widespread use it seems when the bouffant coif Feur be came popular. The Only Way soft hair could be made to stay bouffant was to make it stiff. Then when the girls Dis covered that lacquer would Seal their hair in any position they started Experiment ing with other styles. Some piled their hair High some twisted it into shape suggestive of a sort of Cornucopia. After the weird shapes had run their course and More and More women re turned to More natural hairdos Many of them continued to use the sprays. This was t just from Force of habit one told me. The stuff really holds the hair in place she said. You could t muss it up if  in my informal Survey i found Only one Man who does t consider the stuff completely objectionable. Don t Tell my wife he said but sneak a Little now and then for my mus tache. It s much better than Wax  he took my hand and placed a fingertip against one of the Points. Sharp in t it it was so Sharp in fact that i half expected it to draw blood. Does t your wife object to being kissed by a Man with such a deadly weapon on his lip i asked. It s a stalemate he answered with a shrug. Like the nuclear standoff Between the United states and the soviet Union. She objects to the Mustache even without the Points she does t like mustaches period. So i told her i d shave it off if she Stop she lacking her hair. She said she d quit the shellac if i Stop smoking cigars. I said i d quit the cigars if she d get up and fix breakfast in the mornings. She said she d fix breakfast if i d Dothe dinner dishes. I said but what s the use you can Tever win with a  at a dance the other night i noticed a woman whose hair had that old fashioned soft look. Her head rested against her partner s Cheek As they danced and i could Tell by his contented expression that her hair was As Silky As it looked. Later we were introduced and i said i was admiring your hair. It s refreshing to see a woman who does t use All the Gluck on her  after she had moved away my wife re marked you must be Blind. That Silky hair you raved Over was a wig sunday july 21, 1963