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...with only the pale hand of Poland's Oscar Lange raised with Gromyko's. Later Colombia suggested a compromise which called for the creation of a new, slightly modified Balkan Commission. Gromyko said the Colombia proposal was simply the old U.S. resolution with a "wash, a haircut, powder and lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Negative Neanderthaler | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Scarlet Smears. Outside the hotel entrance 18 French war orphans waited and wilted. "Vive I'Argentine, vive la France," they piped as Evita's car arrived. She hugged two of the youngsters, kissed them, leaving smears of scarlet lipstick on their sweaty cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: La Belle Blonde | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

That sum might soon be sundae-money to Vic Damone. Like Crooners Sinatra, Perry Como and the late Russ Columbo, Vic is of Italian descent-and he managed to be born & bred in Brooklyn. He has shrewd management and the shyest little catty-cornered grin that ever melted the lipstick off a teenager. He also has a full, lyrical baritone, trimmed with a sense of phrase that Sinatra might envy if it were not so much like his own. Says Vic: "I try to tell a story. I never sing a song the same way twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Da Moan | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...biggest boom is in military construction. Across Bering Strait, Russia, from which the U.S. bought Alaska for $7,200,000 in 1867, is only 52 miles away. Arctic and Pacific defense looms large in U.S. military thinking, and Alaska looms large in both. As Alaska-based B-29s, with lipstick-red wings and tails (easily seen in case of forced landings on the polar icecap), fly routine missions over the North Pole, the Army & Navy are pumping men and millions of dollars into the Territory. At Mile 26 on the Richardson Highway near Fairbanks, the Army is rushing construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Promised Land | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...list of clients has grown to impressive lengths, including the Pennsylvania Railroad, Armour. Frigidaire, International Harvester, Lockheed, Greyhound, and 87 other big corporations. With a staff numbering less than 250, he has boldly taken on all comers. He designed the Studebaker car, the Lucky Strike package, refrigerators, stoves, radios, lipstick tubes, locomotives, ships, department stores, pens, and thousands of other items. (Almost the only item he refuses to work on is coffins, because "you can't improve on death.") All told, the gross sales of products he designed, or packaged, currently add up to more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Designer of Dreams | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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