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...excited employee hailed it as "the biggest thing since wired brassieres." A stubble-bearded conservative quipped: "You don't look like you need a shave. You just look embalmed." But Founder Daniels figured his foxhole gag might be a good idea. Among his first users was blue-bearded he-man Clark Gable. And in its first week the company sold about 57,000 jars of its camouflage at $1 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Shady Business | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Married. Ernest Hemingway, 47, burly, lately bearded (but not shorn) author of burly, hirsute, he-man prose; and Mary Welsh, 38, only woman correspondent with the R.A.F. in France before Dunkirk, later TIME Inc. correspondent in London; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Tough-talking, little (5 ft. 4 in.) Missouri-born Thomas Hart Benton, most swaggeringly masculine of U.S. painters, blew into Manhattan last week and let go a he-man bellow at art in the big city. Said he to a reporter from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bunch of Softies | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...fighting guts that won me my four stars." Pre-Season Talk. When he sits in his high, steel chair on the flag bridge of a super-battleship, Halsey's wide, thin-lipped mouth with downturned corners looks tight enough. But he is a good talker in private conversation, he-man variety; his give-&-take with his top staff officers is free & easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: Bull's-Eye | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

Humphrey Bogart, Hollywood's No 1 he-man (To Have and Have Not, Casablanca), announced that he had separated from his wife, ex-Cinemactress Mayo Methot, Bogart, who nicknamed his wife (also his yacht) "Sluggy" and bragged about their many private and public fights in six years of marriage (on their fifth anniversary, he gave Sluggy a rolling pin), kept mum about the reasons. Hollywood newshawks pointed out that Methot was for Dewey, Bogart for Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Decorators | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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