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More Work to Do. In St. Louis, Detective Russell Schroeder arrived at the scene of a burglary, put his fingerprint kit down for a moment, presently found that somebody had stolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 10, 1947 | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...chill of autumn descended on their piñon-dotted desert lands last week, the Navajo Indians prepared their hearts for punishment at the hands of their old enemy, the United States of America. When winter came-the 84th winter since Kit Carson had defeated them in honorable war-it seemed almost certain that many of them were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Winter of Death? | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...turned out only about a dozen cameras. Before long, Fox and Towne hope to make enough to have them snapping portraits in department stores and portrait studios all over the U.S. Soon, the company hopes to make a smaller camera to sell to amateurs, along with a home developing kit. But Fox thinks that the biggest money is in commercial advertising. The company is already making color slides of products to display in stores in specially lighted frames. Among the first customers was Noma Electric Corp. with an order for 50,000 slides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Foxy Photo | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...chicken-in general and saluting in particular that Leghorn G.I.s had nicknamed their main street "Bent Arm Boulevard." ¶ He maintained a Disciplinary Training Camp at Pisa, where G.I. prisoners "get the sweatbox for making a wrong turn. [It] is full of delightful [punishment] routine like cleaning a mess kit with a needle, or walking for hours squatting on the hams and making duck noises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Courthouse | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Help Needed. A Toni kit costs $1.25 (deluxe model: $2) and $1 for a refill; beauty-shop permanents range anywhere from $10 to $50. A Toni wave may not last quite as long, but women who have tried it seem to find it satisfactory. They say it is not quite as easy or as quick to put on as Wishbone's advertising would have them believe, and that it is much better if a roommate is around to help wrestle with the elusive plastic curlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Wishbone of Old Eli | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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