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...Almost all foods need makeup. To give that rich look to cream, add a pinch of the deep yellow spice turmeric. A rubbed-on mixture of lipstick and wax improves oranges; grapes should be lightly dusted with talcum powder; paint steaks and roasts with undiluted grape juice. Butter, ironically, looks best when fortified with a little of the coloring usually sold with oleomargarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gilded Lilies | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...about garbage. They just heave it into the alley. The men have a hard time getting jobs. When they do, they find the U.S. tempo exacting. Said one plaintively: "If one fails to report for work a single day, someone takes his place." They work in small factories, soldering lipstick cases making zippers or paper boxes, packing vegetables or candy. They dig ditches and work ships. Often, they are the big city's men behind the scenes. They wash the dishes, make the beds, clean the offices, launder the clothes, change the tablecloths. All in all, the Barrio seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: World They Never Made | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...most, but as long as we have such a wonderful plot, let's get a good writer." Studio executives would add the new memos to sheaves that already included orders on casting and admonitions about make-up and wardrobe tests (one actress wore too much lipstick, and another's bosom was "still too exaggerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One-Man Studio | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...baby son for the first time before he was besieged by reporters, photographers and authors' agents. Bender flew on to Chicago forewarned-when he arrived he hurried out, hustled his pretty wife back into the plane and did not reappear until he was smeared with lipstick from forehead to chin. At week's end both men still acted as though they had found themselves a runaway roller coaster-and loved the giddy sensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Through the Looking Glass | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...from Providence, R.I. to its' new home in Montclair, N.J., swarms into school, undergoes a whooping-cough epidemic, a mass tonsillectomy, a visit from a lady apostle of birth control. The oldest daughter (Jeanne Grain) wages a long uphill fight on father's prejudices against hair-bobbing, lipstick and dates with boys. Mother, torpidly played by Myrna Loy, takes a back seat but comes into her own when father dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 10, 1950 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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