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My nephew informs me that he knows a girl who uses a royal jelly lipstick, and every time she goes out, she is simply surrounded with a swarm of bees.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

¶ Personnel Records Unit that catalogues each cop's skills, hobbies and qualifications on an IBM card, can in minutes mechanically thumb 24,000 cards and flick out names of policemen who understand Tagalog or Tonkinese or deaf-mute sign language, who are tall enough (6 ft. 3 in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Strong Arm of the Law | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Aerosol men figure that the pushbutton foods will help double sales of aerosol products by 1961. Sales have gone up more than tenfold since 1951, topped $400 million last year, are heading for $500 million in 1958. Every day almost 10 million U.S. men use aerosol shaving creams, and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: High-Pressure Boom | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Few items have given rise to such extravagant claims as royal jelly, the creamy substance produced by nurse bees to nourish the long-lived queen bee in the hive. When it came out, women swarmed around the beauty counters, attracted by ads that called royal jelly "the secret of eternal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Pink Jungle | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

But those who bought royal jelly had a right to feel stung. Reported the Los Angeles Better Business Bureau newsletter: "There is little evidence to support any significant therapeutic, cosmetic or nutritional value in the product for humans." Says Maison G. DeNavarre, chief chemist of Michigan's Beauty Counselors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Pink Jungle | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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