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...immaculate mats of his living-room floor. Wall panels had been pulled wide so that he could contemplate his precise garden and bask in the afternoon sunshine. His brown, rough-silk kimono lay open from shoulder to ankle, his undershirt was unbuttoned, he wiggled his toes in white, mitten-like socks. His radio blared a grunt-by-grunt account of the winter sumo wrestling matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Son of a Samurai | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Last week Moe Annenberg went fishing in the Pike County lake where Transit Magnate Thomas Eugene Mitten was drowned in 1929. Moses L. Annenberg had no intention of drowning, but he wanted to think over a scheme to start a Camden paper in the fall. It would cost a lot of money, but it might drown David Stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Philadelphia Story | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Incorporated this week into Pins and Needles under the tile . . . One Third of a Mitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: TAC | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg of the Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Morning Telegraph and Daily Racing Form, purchased for $100,000 the $250,000 Pocono Mountain estate of the late Philadelphia transit tycoon, Thomas Eugene Mitten, who drowned there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 14, 1937 | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...scraped off the old wax down to the wood with a homemade scraper and applied out native Klister, which is a mixture of pine pitch and oil. We then heated the skis over the fire (as wax will not stick to wet wood) and with a wax mitten rubbed them to a high glassy finish, making them waterproof. The patience and tireless efforts of these Lapplanders has convinced me that waxing is almost as important as actual skill, as by proper waxing one can lessen slipping backward when climbing, and also prevent snow from caking on the skis. Many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKOAL TO THE WAX HOUND | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

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