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...first meeting of G.I. and Jap ends with some cute business of swapping cigarettes for fish. There is a brief skirmish over a boat, but peace follows when Sinatra, as a drunken Irish medic, sobers up to treat the enemy wounded. "I'm a Band-Aid man," he quips, preparing to amputate a Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War on the Flip Side | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...they are there in hundreds. But perhaps the most remarkable animal of all is an old male lion who, after a visit from the zoologist, rises with indomitable dignity and turns his back to the curious camera. Startling indeed to see the King of Beasts with a neat little Band-Aid on his backside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hunting with a Hypodermic | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

Above all, Harrington insists on using public money to combat poverty. He calls the recently enacted tax-cut bill "the most minimal conceivable band-aid," and accuses the conservatives in Congress of devising the "most reactionary possible version of a good idea." The private sector, Harrington says, is just not generating any new jobs, and Washington has yet to realize this...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Michael Harrington | 3/5/1964 | See Source »

...great, vote-getting name of Abe Ribicoff; he is favored to beat Seely-Brown, and he might well carry Dempsey along with him. In that sense, a story doing the Connecticut rounds is appropriate. Alsop, pulling a switch on Seely-Brown's potholder campaign, is passing out Band-Aids with his name imprinted on them; other candidates are passing out G.O.P. cookbooks. An elderly lady brewed a Republican stew, took it off the stove with a Seely-Brown potholder and badly burned herself. She put an Alsop Band-Aid on the wound. Then she called Abe Ribicoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tumbling All Over | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Among the U.S. products still standing watch over their good names, still demanding Upper-Case billing in news stories, novels and shopping columns: Erector Set, Band-Aid, Dixie cup, JellO, Jeep, Laundromat, Kleenex. Deepfreeze, Levi's (blue jeans). Dry Ice, Simoniz, Spray Net and Zipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: That Which We Call a Rose | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

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