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Blonde, brown-eyed Jackie Cochran got into almost everything early. At four she was orphaned, at 14 she was an experienced beauty-parlor operator, at 24 she was about to enter the London-Melbourne race as the only U.S. woman flyer (she only made Bucharest). Today she is not quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Women in War | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

> Nonrunning waterproof wax for the cosmetic stockings.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cosmetic Urge | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Liquid Legs. As silk stockings evaporate from the nation's store counters, cosmeticians are rushing in to challenge rayon. Liquid stockings are on the way. Last week in New York, one salon opened a "Leg-Bar"; showed waterproof, streak-proof, runproof, cosmetic stockings in giant lipstick form (called "leg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patterns | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

>During the past 23 years, William Koch, a discredited M.D., and his brother Louis have widely marketed from their Koch Laboratories a phony synthetic "antitoxin" for cancer called Glyoxylide. They claimed it was made from fatty sulfur compounds, sold it for prices ranging from $25 to $300 a thimbleful. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No More Pandiculation | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

> Cosmetic dealers, bound by no food & drug act, were selling boot polish as mascara, commercial lacquer as nail varnish, powdered paint as rouge.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blacketeers | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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