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...story concerns a handsome U.S. oil salesman, working the Far East for all it is worth, and a beautiful young American teacher, a hard-headed idealist in lipstick and raincoat. These two meet in the shell-screech and Kleiglight of Paramount's Chinese war. They help the Chinese, they love, and he dies. In depicting these events, several Paramount writers have had their characters speak out in such terms as: "Women just know things like that" (intuition); "It's the funniest feeling-I wish I could tell you what it's like" (love); "I am afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1943 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough waterfront cafes. Last week Valdes finished off an eight-week run at La Conga, where he made such a hit that one of the nightly duties of the headwaiter was to wipe off the lipstick feverish women had implanted on his photograph in the lobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Leading Latins | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...George) Ashton Oldham, Episcopal Bishop of Albany, roundly denied the importance of lipstick and nail polish to keep up U.S. morale. "God help this country," cried he in a Lenten sermon, "if we have to depend on those things for morale." Promptly from Hollywood came red-white-&-blue protests: How would the Bishop of Albany like to give up shaving? "I am willing to stop shaving," he countered, "if they are willing to give up cosmetics." That appeared unlikely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 22, 1943 | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...cold grey" eyes showed her determination to "fight to the last ditch." She had come a long, tough way. At Tokyo's Imperial Hotel the roughness of the bathtub had left, she said ruefully, a "waffle design" on her posterior. Later, she had caught influenza. Her lipstick had run out. She was without holeless silk stockings. But when Steinhardt told her she had been "spoiled rotten by [her] parents" she replied "with gibes even more cutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Russia Was Invaded | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...sophomore at the University of Southern California, Louise is studying marketing and merchandising, collects swing phonograph records, wears crimson lipstick, dotes on chocolate cookies, chocolate candy bars, chocolate ice-cream cones. She has been playing tennis only six years and still has a lot to learn. But the strokes she has mastered (particularly her American twist serve) are nearly as paralyzing as a Joe Louis punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Latest Comet | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

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