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...Parchment paper for permanent-wave pads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cosmetic Urge | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...stand them on their heads. There were pledges, mite boxes (for children's pennies) which yielded as much as $100 a week. Special publicity promised church members who pledged even the smallest amount that their names and their children's names would be printed on a vast parchment scroll to be permanently displayed in a glassed niche cut in the church wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Triumphant Campaign | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

There Richard Casey wrote The Commonwealth of Australia in a bold hand. When the Greek Minister wrote his neat, self-controlled Cimon P. Diamantopoulos, the consonants reached across the parchment. Said Adolf Berle to the Polish Ambassador: "My dear Ambassador, your Greek colleague has already taken part of the space reserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The United Nations | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...Tokyo. Now he lives in a modest villa in the Tokyo suburbs. Early one morning last week there came to the modest villa a 33-year-old autograph hunter named Naohiko Nishiyama. While the kimonoed Baron obligingly painted his calligraph, Autograph Hunter Nishiyama whipped a revolver from a parchment scroll, fired thrice, missed once. Though wounded, the Baron gave chase, caught the visitor by the shirt, held him with the aid of a guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Big Shot-At | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Board Member Roger Dearborn Lapham, of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., was the color of parchment; Chair man Clarence Dykstra had just gotten over a ten-day siege of sickness. The disease they were all suffering from was simply fatigue and overwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Sleeping Mediators | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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