Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department's director, Frank Callan Norris, a TIME Inc. staffman ever since he left Princeton in 1929, managing editor of the radio March of Time since 1941. A redhaired, wry, witty compendium of universal fact and theory, Norris is also a not able Aberdeen Angus cattle raiser and barbershop tenor. Co-author of The World and America is Folklorist Carl Carmer (Listen for a Lonesome Drum), a specialist in local American history ever since he left a northern professorship to teach at the University of Alabama...
...Massey's barbershop at 3306 Main Street, Kansas City, a big, muscular man, generously daubed with powder and witch hazel, eased himself out of a barber's chair. He had just had a haircut, shave, shampoo, scalp massage and shoe shine-"the works." Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut. But last week his pay envelope held $140, and he now frankly enjoyed these little male luxuries-everything except a manicure...
...your cut line under the picture of the advance-zone barbershop with its witty price list (TIME, May 8) you attempt to interpret G.I. humor, with I wonder what results. The barber probably thought his manicure "for officers only" was just as funny as the one about awarding the Purple Heart for his razor nicks...
...barbershop, presided over by a boyish-looking blond with marcelled hair, was a lush display of Hollywood leg art, clipped from U.S. magazines...
...Middle. In Stockholm, Sweden, in the barbershop of the Grand Hotel, there was a deadly silence as three men sat side by side. On one side was British Correspondent Ossian Goulding; on the other, a German Legation attaché. In the middle was Dr. Juho Paasikivi, Finland's possible peace negotiator...