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...since Ingrid Bergman adopted the "feather bob" in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has the clipped hair-do made such invesds on styleconscions Annex girls. Already battered by fashton's long skirt collct many Cliffe-dwellers faced the latest decrea with stold resignation and inside up inside local beauty salous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Sweeping the Nation . . . | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

Republican Congressmen, some with axes and some with feather dusters, flailed away last week at the Administration's $597 million program for interim aid to Europe. Their flailing was more vigorous than most of the program's proponents had expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Flailing & Cutting | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Football Captain Vince Moravec got off his hospital bed for the first time since the Virginia game Saturday morning when he kept a two month old appointment with over 500 Greater Boston youths of the Red Feather Brigade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moravec Quits Bed To Address Youths | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...also impressed, and pleased, some rank-&-filers. One of them was Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux Indians. At Cheyenne, the Chief had made Dewey a member of the tribe, presenting him, in a speech in Sioux, with a red-dyed, turkey-feather headdress. Princess Blue Water had translated: "We're a-namin' him Brave Heart. We're for him for President and with what he's a-doin' he's got to be brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Second Section | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Curtain Up. In Leningrad, the Russian fur trust held its first public postwar auction. The Russians, who frown on large foreign embassy staffs and restrict the number of U.S. newsmen to eight, consider fur traders birds of a different capitalistic feather. Among about 100 foreign fur brokers invited were 40 Americans. The guests bought $7,000,000 worth of sables, ermine and muskrat and bid up Siberian Bargusinsky sable to a postwar high of $550 a skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

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