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...years Dr. Bruun, like Captain Ahab pursuing Moby Dick, has been on the trail of such a monster eel. He thinks that the Galathea did not search in the right places. The deeps are too poor in food to support large creatures. On some future expedition he hopes to comb the more promising waters of the continental slopes, and perhaps latch on to a grown-up eel as big as the legendary sea serpent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From the Lower Depths | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...woman who cares for frippery-she bought only one dress, an evening gown, this winter in Paris, and then only because she forgot to bring one from New York. She uses no lipstick and no powder, and keeps nothing on her dressing table but a big, black, old-fashioned comb, a hairbrush and a faded picture of F.D.R. as a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...significance of accessories--the little comb in a girl's hair, the flash of color that is a scarf, the gleaming white that is a piece of adhesive tape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accessories Work Miracles; Vitalize Grimmest Garments | 3/26/1952 | See Source »

...Railroad of violating price ceilings and sued for $384,245 triple damages. The charge: the Pennsy, without raising its hand and asking teacher for permission, had doubled the price of admission to most of its station toilets from 5? to 10? and increased the charges for towel, soap and comb from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Raise Your Hand | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...past months the Office of Price Stabilization has fearlessly taken controls off such items as sphygmo-oscillometers, Eskimo handicraft, canned rattlesnake meat, Easter-egg dye, truffles, cat beds, wigs, shoehorns, comb cleaners and incense burners. Last week it broadened the vistas of free enterprise. It removed price ceilings on "clay targets used in artificial shooting" and on "non-edible foods," e.g., wax apples and bananas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Freed Banana | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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