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...plus-fours (until a doctor told him they were bad for his circulation), but he kept his silk shirts with their flowing sleeves. To compensate for his balding dome, he wore his hair long in back. In winter he crammed it inside a beret; in summer he used a hairnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fun All My Life | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Reporters surrounded him. He was a little puzzled by the questions. What was so difficult to understand? God had given him the power to cure; he was using it. Avak removed his hood and hairnet, passed a comb through his tangled hair. Said he: "I think I can cure the younger Arakelian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Faith | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...notes: Bob Sherwood still writing nasty notes to that chamber maid about misplacing his unmentionables. But there's nothing real between them, cause he really has a "one and only", in New York of all places. The Lima Bean girl at Cowie has promised Oliver Wilson a seamless nylon hairnet for his unruly locks. Because Mrs. Betey Brown says we shouldn't, and we're mad at her because she won't guest-write our column even once, we will say that Wally Notter's daughter looks too bee-eutiful for to be a boy, although...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

...normal appetites. They love sport. Göring is Reich's Master of the Hunt, lives in the middle of a 100,000-acre game preserve, imports falcons from Iceland to pursue that medieval sport. He plays tennis in the garden behind his palace in Berlin, wearing a hairnet to keep his long reddish hair from falling away from the balding area. He skis in a fur cap, rides in all kinds of costume. He has himself photographed at all his sports except swimming. Because of his sensitiveness about his hyper-developed mammary glands, other guests were excluded from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: No. 2 Nazi | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Early last year three robbers entered the Manhattan apartment of Hairnet Maker Harry C. Glemby, bound him, his wife, daughter and two servants with wires, escaped with Mrs. Glemby's jewelry, valued at $349,000. Early this year robbers broke into the home of Mrs. Isaac Keller, mother of Harry Glemby, stole $50,000 in jewelry. Last April, as clerks of the Glemby company entered an elevator with a $1,349 payroll, two men held them up, made the operator take the elevator up while they escaped with the money. Last week a single robber entered the Atlantic City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1933 | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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