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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molotov is better known as Paulina Zhemchuzhina (zhemchug means pearl). She is a slim, handsome woman, with a clear olive skin and discreet makeup. Moscow's prewar foreign community knew her as a charming and lavish hostess, a lover of French literature, a well-dressed woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Hammer | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Reported Dead. Mei Lan-fang, 49, great Chinese tan (actress); of poison; in Shanghai. Although Mei's mastery of the masks, makeup, swords and fans of plot-bare, nuance-encrusted Chinese plays mystified Manhattan theatergoers in 1930, he was the biggest box-office name in China and long top-ranking tan (father of two sons, he always played feminine roles). Emperor Hsuan-tung confirmed his title, "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" -Chinese equivalent of an "Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 23, 1943 | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Sunday School teams - arrived at Chicago's Wrig ley Field fortnight ago for their "spring training," they discovered another of Mr. Wrigley's novel ideas. Part of their train ing was a compulsory course at Helena Rubinstein's Gold Coast beauty salon - to learn about makeup, posture and other whatnots usually neglected by lady athletes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies of the Little Diamond | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

Boston Globe is a combined morning & evening newspaper, put out by two separate staffs. The morning editions are more or less orthodox. The evening Globe has a splashy, garish makeup, screams in black, tricky headlines. Sample: MRS. COOLIDGE DOES NOT CHOOSE TO RUN (when the former President's wife refused the commandership of Massachusetts Women's Defense Corps). Last week the evening Globe headlined a story of Axis forces trapped on Tunisia's Cap Bon: BOTTLED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News Notes | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...yard big top and 40 smaller tents. They anticipated the loss of Manila by laying away 73 miles of rope-also a year's supply. The animal market is fine: the Big Show always has a backlog anyway. The clowns (who buy their own makeup) use hundreds of pounds of strategic zinc oxide and glycerine, but they hoarded enough for the season, too. There is a real shortage of silk tights and stockings-but a barelegged circus girl does no lasting damage at the box office. One glamor-girl act is especially well fixed: golden girl Betty Nitsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Big-Top Business | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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