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...chill city streets, the crowds walked faster, and the golden lights seemed warm in the windows. The season of gifts and cruises to the South was approaching, and a large cosmetics firm greeted it with a new lipstick and a momentous ad: "There's a new American beauty . . . she's tease and temptress, siren and gamin, dynamic and demure. Men find her slightly, delightfully baffling. Sometimes a little maddening." In Providence, Mary Burns, 21, hit her father on the head several times with a hammer, explaining: "He's ugly-looking, and he made me that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: After the Vote | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...about pride or venality, he struts; when he speaks of the unregenerate's awful doom, he covers his eyes with both hands; and when he warns that "it can happen to you," his forefinger slashes at every sinner's heart. To keep himself mobile, Billy clips a lipstick-shaped microphone to his necktie; an assistant holds the coiled slack of the wire, and pays it out to him as he moves about. On the pulpit, Billy rests two black leather books. One is a notebook containing a typed outline of tonight's sermon, the other a Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PERSONALITY | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...Under Education of Children: "[Girls may wear] a natural pink lipstick at 13 or 14 for parties, a little darker one at 15, and from 16 on, lipstick as they wish [and] a little powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gracious Living for All | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...crown is not all she'll carry; gifts donated by Square and Boston merchants, modeling opportunities, and more dates than she can shake a lipstick at will be hers. The five runners-up will share in the prizes and publicity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Qualify for Miss 'Cliffe Finals | 9/25/1952 | See Source »

...Simple Question. In Manhattan, Mrs. Frank Bianco, 29, complained in an assault charge (later withdrawn) that when she questioned her husband about lipstick on his shirt, he scissored her shoulder-length hair to a crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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