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...with a 328-ft. statue of Lenin in stainless steel (see cut). The crown of his bald pate was to tower 1,364 ft. above the nearby tomb in which his embalmed body lay. (New York's Empire State building would reach only to the statue's midriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Mighty Monument | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...Inspector Ridges re-enacting the probable method of murder for the appalled widower while the camera, taking possession of Laughton's brain, flicks from bit to bit of the scene of the crime, turning a dark wardrobe, a torn stair-carpet, into so many kicks in the emotional midriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 5, 1945 | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Paris was happy last week-the statue of the Zouave on the Pont d'Alma still had a dry midriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: André | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace, plush, velvet. Britain's long-suffering women, plump from their starchy wartime diet, hailed the new order in corsets: it would uplift both midriff and morale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Midriff and Morale | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

Voice of Freedom. MacArthur sat upright in the stern of the barge. When it grounded in shoal water, he walked down the ramp and waded ashore. He was wet to the midriff, but the sun glinted on the golden "scrambled eggs" on his strictly individualistic cap as he faced a microphone. To Filipinos his first words were the fulfillment of a promise: "This is the Voice of Freedom." That was how the last Corregidor radio programs began. Said Douglas MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Promise Fulfilled | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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