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...Cobb; top Scene Designers Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager. Worse, Actors' Equity has been drained of a good fourth of its male rank & file. Casting takes longer and has to be warier: many an actor still here today may be gone tomorrow. Most available chorus men have either hairless cheeks or hairless heads. Already an all-girl revue, Femme-Mania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Curtain Going Up | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...Hitler would have been if he had been satisfied with a dachshund and a Pomeranian, but no, he also had to have a Scotty and a great Dane, and I give you my word, if we are not careful, he is going to go after a Mexican hairless. And with them all on the lead he is going to be exactly like Mikey-praying for a policeman to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Dogs and Democracy | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...instructive if somewhat unsightly object lesson in the laws of genetics has been provided in recent months by M. Etienne Letard of the National Veterinary School at Alfort, France. M. Letard has bred a race of hairless cats. One or two hairless kittens appear from time to time in the litters of two perfectly normal Siamese parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lesson | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...reached the U. S. last week, M. Letard has mated each of the parents to other cats but from such unions has never obtained a naked kitten. A naked kitten, after growing up and being mated to a normal cat, has uniformly normal litters. But when two of the hairless cats were mated to each other, they had an entirely hairless litter. The hairlessness was thus seen to be a recessive Mendelian character. By mating one hairless animal with another, Dr. Letard has obtained a true-breeding strain. Up to last week no buyers had appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lesson | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...hate to have these Indians get recognition! Why, it would be the end of them!" Her first stop was at an adobe hut where a blanketed full-blooded Indian named Tony Luhan sat on a hassock beating a drum and singing. Tony was a large-featured, husky, hairless, sedate man with "nice eyelids" and beautifully plucked eyebrows. When he finally looked up, Mabel "saw his was the face that had blotted out [husband] Maurice's in my dream." Tony said he had seen her before too-also in a dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vol. IV, Marriage IV | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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