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Anyway, I like girls' hair cut short. Has H. A. Crosby Forbes ever felt the delightful contours of a woman's skull? Or run his fingers through her fine hair? Or kissed the back of her neck, without tasting dandruff? None of these delightful acts would be possible if great gobs of that stuff--hair--trailed down between her shoulder blades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woman's Hair | 3/15/1950 | See Source »

Allergy tests made with husband, Holdridge's hair oil, hair, dandruff and clothing proved nothing. But Psychiatrist Gordon Dayton found the explanation. During interviews, Joyce Holdridge became jittery and itchy, just from talking about her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: It Was Him | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...client complaining of ulcers, he says: "Muy bien, señor. For you, pisco from a bottle of turnip. That'll be 1½ soles [11?]." In a huge green bottle beside the ulcer cure soaks a banana. "Sĩ señor, bananas. They are to cure dandruff. The pisco sits for a month, absorbing the dandruff-eliminating elements and the hair-restoring elements right out of the banana. That's camomile steeping in the next bottle. Cures malaria. If you want to get fat, you can have pisco from the strawberry bottle; if you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wine of the Country | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...conservative sponsors settle for sudsy little dramas. Prell shampoo peeps inside the U.S. bedroom to find a wife chiding her husband because his broad shoulders are sprinkled with dandruff. Camel presents vignettes in which someone, usually a pretty girl, battles a sailfish or performs involved dives from the high board. Then, by a process known as Sponsor's Logic, she ties up her athletic skill with her preference for Camels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sponsors' World | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Awakened at 5:15 a.m. . . . tried to take another dip into oblivion . . . awakened at 7 a.m. . . . went to sleep again . . . Awakened at 8:15 a.m. [with] itching ... head, lots of white dry dandruff . . . must read about it in the Encyclopedia . . . Smoking too much makes me nervous . . . Arose at 9 o'clock ... I think freckles ... are due to some salt of iron [in] low state of oxidation ... A little dog . . . just came [in], face as dismal as a bust of Dante . . . dinner at 3 p.m. ... I eat too quick . . . Commenced reading . . . don't like Dickens-don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Man & Little People | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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