He's Also a Client: The Saga of Sy Sperling's Hair Club
Divorced , blue , and with his midriff growing , Sy Sperling stood in front of a mirror at his home in Long Island in the late 1960s and adjusted his hair’s-breadth . It wasn’thishair , exactly , but a toupeepurchasedfor the express determination of obscuring his prematurely shiny pate . Though he was only 26 , Sperling had been lose his hair for years . Now that he was fresh single , he felt self - conscious about his receding hairline , believe it would diminish his prospect with the polar sex ....