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...attract search planes, went on using a salvaged bucket to melt snow (by body warmth) for drinking water. Every day she took pains to stand up and do a few exercises. Protected by several layers of clothing against the cold and sleet, she ticked off the days with lipstick on a nearby tree. But shock and exposure began to tell. After 19 days on Ferris Mountain, only twelve scarlet daubs were on the tree...
...closing and locking the trunk is done automatically by electronic controls. Seats, steering, windows and brakes are power-operated; air conditioning is standard equipment. And as a final bow to happy motoring, the door of the glove compartment is custom-fitted with a cigarette case, tissue box, vanity case, lipstick and four gold-finished drinking cups...
...public schools in many cities now provide special classes. There the slow learners acquire such basic skills as reading, arithmetic, telling time, using the telephone, handling money. With patient training, most of these youngsters may eventually find jobs. Some schools teach their girl students how to put on lipstick and dress attractively; boys learn how to call a girl for a date, and small groups, after careful instruction, venture out to dine in restaurants. For the "trainables," with IQs of 30 to 50, some of whom must be shown how to tie their shoes or turn on a light...
Harper's Bazaar Editor Carmel Snow-"This changes everything." Cried another fashion oracle: "Dior has done for Paris couture what the taxi drivers did for France at the Battle of the Marne." His pink face smudged with congratulatory lipstick, even Christian Dior was stunned. "My God, what have I done?" he cried, and burst into tears...
...tiny smudge of lipstick, spotted by the eagle eye of an Associated Pressman and duly reported by cable and radio last week, was an all's-well signal that spread to the four corners of the earth. Such, anyway, was the impression created by frontpage stories recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...