Hair

Philip is thirty years old and finds that he has begun to lose his hair. This late-blooming musician felt that hair loss was a serious disaster. The dermatologist told him that only his father could tell him how long he had left before he would go bald: men in every family seemed to go bald at the same age. Philip then returned to his hometown and wanted to know the age at which his father became completely bald—that is, his own.