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...cables reflected that sensitiveness. In the Kwajalein cleanup his eyes had caught the sight of a dead Jap's bearded waxen face sprinkled with the rubble of a wrecked pillbox, on Leyte the pathos of G.I.s celebrating Christmas by decorating twigs with Christmas wrappings and empty cigaret packs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...still embarrassed by) heavy legs and a rather unimpressive figure. So she never modeled such commodities as bathing suits or lingerie or stockings. But she became easily the nation's foremost magazine-cover and hat model, had her face plastered on tens of thousands of cigaret-advertising billboards. At $50 an hour, the highest modeling fee ever paid, she sometimes made more than $1,000 a week. Her sex appeal was attested by such demonstrations as the receipt from various male admirers one Christmas of no less than 44 bottles of her favorite, $40-an-oz. perfume. Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cover Girl | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...scandalous G.I. cigaret shortage in France aroused the Army to swift action. Last week, after nearly two months of careful undercover work, investigators announced their first big haul. Arrested at various posts between Cherbourg and Paris, close to 200 soldiers, including two officers, confessed to receiving a total of $200,000 from black-market sales of-stolen cigarets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Black-Marketeers | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...cigaret trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Like many a U.S. tobacconist, Ben Marx day after day steeled himself against the doelike eyes of suppliant smokers, doled out cigarets with flinty furtiveness. As furtively, his customers searched his Armonk, N.Y. drugstore for cigaret caches. He got a safe. They learned the combination. Finally, last week, he could stand it no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa's 220 Packs | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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