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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...print, unfortunately, Elsa is not so entertaining as when bubbling in her energetic flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: EIGHTH WONDER SYNDICATED | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

After Sisowath's body died, Cambodian priests treated it with secret essences to preserve its outer flesh, removed all its internal organs except its heart and brain. Then they folded the body into an urn in the curled position of an unborn child, symbolizing preparation for rebirth somewhere, sometime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH INDO-CHINA,Sisowath's Body: Sisowath's Body | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...many as 20,000 captives were sacrificed at one time in the Aztec metropolis. Victims' flesh was sometimes eaten "in the belief that the eater can absorb the virtues of the eaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Aztecs Revisited | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...Algiers, Marco Polo) applied for U.S. citizenship, but not as a gag. The cinemactress Sam Goldwyn acclaimed as a genuine Scandinavian importation (like Garbo) had lost her citizenship when her parents took her back to their former home in Norway. ∙∙ Billy Rose is taking time out from flesh spectacles, putting his aquacade profits behind a triangle play by Clifford Odets. ∙∙ Press-Agentry of the Week: In Hollywood Charlie McCarthy, honorary sergeant in the Air Corps, was ordered court-martialed for accepting a Marine appointment. In Portland, Ore., he was signed to guest-conduct the Portland Stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 21, 1941 | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...since 1924 has Tibet seen a Panchen Lama in the flesh. In that year the late Dalai Lama, secular ruler of the land, seized the spiritual power as well, drove the Panchen Lama into exile where he died in 1938. When this usurper died seven years ago, he was succeeded by a Mongolian shepherd's son. The new Dalai Lama is now being educated - as the new Panchen Lama will be - amid the spinning prayer wheels and chanting monks of a Tibetan monastery. The two lucky youths can look forward to a soft life if they are lucky enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Panchen Lama Discovered | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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