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Word: haircuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, chunky man with a crew haircut and the face of an Oriental John Garfield walked into butter-colored Gia-Long Palace in Saigon one morning last week and handed to Premier Tran Van Huu a letter bearing the imperial seal of Bao Dai. The letter bluntly deposed Huu and named the bearer, 57-year-old Nguyen Van Tarn, as new Premier of embattled Indo-China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: I Make War | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...Osborne employs the "beating the system" technique used to great advantage by Stephen Potter. The trick here is to discover a way of showing one's superiority over either people or institutions. Osborne has picked on the barbers. Like many others he dislikes the conversation that inevitably accompanies a haircut. His method of silencing barbers is both amusing and plausible...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Lampoon | 5/13/1952 | See Source »

...venture to speak categorically in these days of rapidly changing whims, are the animal styles. It is the unpreceptive observer who has not seen a horsetail hair around the Square somewhere. The very urchins discuss it as they shine one's shoes. Popular too is the poodle haircut, though in recent times it has been joined by the Old English Sheepdog, the Skye, and (Oh rara avis!) the Russian elkhound hairstyles...

Author: By John Forand, | Title: Hair Runs Gamut; Pony to Poodle | 3/26/1952 | See Source »

Owners of Harvard Square barber shops have not yet decided whether they will follow the example of most Boston and suburban shops and raise haircut prices to $1.15 next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Barbers Ponder Hike In Cost of Haircuts, Shaves | 3/18/1952 | See Source »

...Home Haircut. The International Latex Corp. (Playtex girdles) put on the market the "greatest invention since the safety razor," the Playtex Hair Cutter. The instrument can be used to cut, trim and taper hair at home. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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