JOHNSON'S HAIR SECRET
up the question with us wondered if such a word existed.
Our research department came up with the information that the wave known as the “marcel" was very popular back in the thirties, or the twenties -- his menory wasn't sure about this. The marcel was originated by a Parisian hairdresser, Marcel Grateau, famous for his skill and originality with a hot curling iron.
However, it seems that we were wrong after all. Murphy Arseneaux of New Orleans, who was recently crowned in Los Angeles as America's top barber, was reported in the press January 29 as disclosing that the new hair style adopted by Johnson is called the "Boumbage."
The name, Boumbage, he said, comes from "a French term meaning to balloon the hair."
Arseneaux spotted Johnson's new hair style when he saw him on television delivering his "state of the union" message.
Fluffing and waving the hair a la Boumbage, said Arseneaux, has a quite practical as well as esthetic purpose. "It covers up imperfections of the skull."
Up to now, Johnson has made no comment on Arseneaux' revelation, so we are unable to report whether it is really true that he turned to the Boumbage be-~ cause he actually does have the problen, among others, of imperfections of the skull. Some of his critics, however, would maintain that not only does the president have the problem of imperfections of the skull, but the imperfections go deeper than the bone.
Enthused by the lift given the tonsorial art by the president of the United States when he delivered his “state of the union" message, Arseneaux went on to say
THE BOUMBAGE
THE BOUMBAGE
that within five years men in the U.S. will be spending as many billions of dollars on cosmetics and other beauty aids as women. He predicted that "within two years men will have cosmetic kits. One of the things being manufactured now is a pancake makeup that blends out harsh colors in a man's face."
Arseneaux is not engaging in a mere flight of fantasy. It happens to be a fact that the cosmetics industry can list Johnson as one of its patrons. It
THE "PEACE AND FREEDOM
A new indicator of the depth of popular sentiment in the United States against the Vietnam war is the emergence of the "Peace and