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Article: Winning contest no close shave for 'Hairiest Man'
- Article from:
- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 20, 1998
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Copyright informationCopyright 1998 Charleston Daily Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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LOS ANGELES - This was to be Keith Young's last day as a circus
sideshow, the final few emotionally wracked moments of an insult-
laden life as a modern-day American werewolf.
He rose shyly from his chair inside his doctor's book-lined UCLA
office. And then slowly, button by button, facing a hoard of
reporters and TV cameramen, he undid his orange-colored dress shirt.
For one long uncomfortable moment, the freakish image shocked a
usually thick-skinned bunch of newspeople into a stunned silence.
Young was covered with hair: a swirling carpet that covered his
chest in dark ringlets, swept down his stomach, around to his back
and shoulders.
For most of his 32 years, the suburban Chicago ...
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