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...Baltimore plane factory so many workers recently broke out with rashes that the disorder was known as the "Bendix Itch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Occupational Itch | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...burly bodyguards. "Communist bands'' became the terror of his troops, and General Draja Mihailovich, whose forces are concentrated in western Croatia, had won thousands of new adherents. What happened last week in Zagreb taught more Croats a lesson: that Serb dominance was to Gestapo dominance as an itch is to a cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: Massacre in Zagreb | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...combat athlete's foot (dermatophytosis)-the itch caused by the toe-burrowing fungi dermatophytes which infest locker rooms and swimming pools-there are at least a hundred bland salves and powders on the market. Favorites: boric acid and sulfur powders, salves of salicylic acid and benzoic acid mixed with vaseline; an ether-collodion mixture. These generally clear up the mild, itching cases which annoy millions of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Athlete's Foot | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Hardy as tumbleweed and persistent as the seven-year itch, U.S. civilian flyers argued for years their worth as a backlog of pilots for the military. Last week they got their first minuscule recognition-a commendatory Army news release. The praise came not from the High Command, but from an officer afield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Civilian Pilots | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...rage," the chestnut vendor kept whispering to him that the proprietor of the Hotel du Caveau "rented Panache's room now and then for twenty-minute periods to streetwalkers who did not draw the color line." The street was delighted when he contracted the barber's itch. >M. de Malancourt, a wealthy gentleman, had an "astonished camera artist take an art photo of his plump and symmetrical backsides, without drapery." Then he sent a handsomely mounted and autographed print to an art expert whom he suspected of selling him a fake Watteau. Sued for libel by the expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamins & Spinach | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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