Ron Goulart - Cure For Baldness

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RON GOULART

A CURE FOR BALDNESS

In an issue filled with terrorists, ghosts, and Martians, we need a bit of

levity. Fortunately, we had this story by Ron Goulart on hand. "A Cure for

Baldness," according to Ron, "explains the various aspects of growing older."

Hmmm. Would that aging could be so interesting for everyone.

It was about a half hour after the second bomb scare that his real trouble got

going. Roger Snow had hidden in a closet the second time the fifteen story

Tandem Brothers Publishing Building on Park Avenue South was evacuated.

Trooping

out into the hot, glaring Manhattan street once a day was sufficient. The

building never blew up anyway.

Roger had sneaked back into his office after five minutes or so, sat again at

his drawing board and started working on thumbnail sketches for the latest

paperback cover in the Lizardworld series.

"Swordsmen of Lizardworld," he'd said aloud, allowing himself to sigh some.

"Can

you fall from grace if you never had any in the first place?"

After awhile he noticed that his hand kept sticking to the layout paper, which

meant the air conditioning was on the fritz again. Sighing once more, he

leaned

back in his chair. The chair produced the usual resentful groaning.

Roger was a plump, moderately tall man in his middle forties and his hair was

thinning. Well, actually he was going to be forty-seven next month and he was

just a shade under five foot eight. He was at least thirty pounds overweight

and

there was extremely little of his brindle-colored hair left on his head at

all.

"I'm starting to sound like a resume when I describe myself," he reflected.

"But

you can't romance the fact that I'm going to seed. As a person, as an artist,

and --"

"Just where's your damn loyalty, Rog?"

"I had it when I came in this --"

"Enough wiseass stuff. How do you explain this?"

While Roger had been woolgathering at his board, everybody in the Fiction

Division of Tandem Brothers had returned. Lex Tandem himself was in the

doorway

of the small office, holding a partially crumpled fax message in his tanned

hand.

"You have some words written in reverse across the front of your suit,"

mentioned Roger. "What does it say? 'Down with the Colonel! Tobacco means . .

' Can't make out the next word."

"Death," supplied Lex. "I got whacked with a placard. You'd think those

halfwits

would wait until the paint dried before they started marching around with the

damn things."

"Another protest march in front of the building, huh?"

"Didn't you notice it? Over a hundred wild-eyed loons waving --"

"Wasn't paying attention."

"I tried to explain to this woman -- large hefty critter, probably lifts

weights

-- that the Colonel Lightfoot Tobacco Company sold its interest in Tandem over

month ago to Worldwide Pesticide. But she wrapped me anyway."

"Protestors usually have a narrow view of --"

"I'm happy to say it sounded like the cops broke her arm when they tossed her

the wagon. So I got some gratification out of --"

"They the ones who planted the latest bomb?"

"No, no. Ordek Yumurta is claiming credit again."

"The Turkish terrorist group?"

"How many Ordek Yumurtas do you think there are? Yes, of course, stupid, the

damn Turkish terrorists." Lex shook his handsome head. "They continue,

apparently, to be ticked off because we published Dr. Uzon Boylu's book last

month. It's a shame because that book -- what the bloody hell is that?" He was

pointing a tanned finger at a cover painting that leaned against the far wall.

"Cover for Dr. Suicide novel #46. Slit Throats in Singapore. Why?"

"It's godawful."

"Yep, which is exactly the style you said to use, commencing with #40."

"I thought I suggested wretched."

"It's that, too."

"I'm straying from the point."

"About Dr. Boylu, you mean?"

"No, not exactly. Although it is a fact that Think Tall has helped me one hell

of a lot. And how many other publishers can say they actually get anything

from

any of the dimwit books they publish?"

"The correct answer is fourteen."

"What did I tell you about the wiseass stuff?

"To stop."

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