Hair Styles

I’m one of those strange people who do not accept the adage about things being as stale as yesterday’s newspaper story. Frankly, I enjoy poring over old newspapers and magazines. Kind of gives me a perspective on things. In the Dec. 3, 1956, issue of the Mirror-News, Judge Burnett Wolfson, annoyed by the long hair worn by some delinquent boys, and somehow tying them in with drugs, exclaimed: “I hope some day the courts can find the right to shave the heads of these punks who wear Elvis Presley haircuts.”

I wonder if Judge Wolfson (or one of his lineal judicial descendants), would today--if annoyed by problem youths--call for hair transplants on, for example, the skinheads?

HARRY CIMRING

Los Angeles