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...heat waves caused by explosions, was announced this week by the Navy Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md. The Institute researchers tried 70 creams before they developed one that filled the bill. The new cream is grey (which helps camouflage), lasts six to eight hours, will not rub off except with soap, does not interfere with finger action, protects against a heat flash of over 1,800° F. The formula is secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sailor, Cream Yourself | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...served erratically. Down two sets to one, he folded like an accordion. He was too good to lose a love set, but he did. It was Hunt's title at 6-3, 6-8, 10-8, 6-0. The new National Champion celebrated by collapsing. He had been rubbing off a Charley horse for most of the final set. Sick-stomached Kramer rushed over, gave Hunt's leg an extra rub-then gave up beside him on the grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tars Take Over | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

While the proprietors of the local apothecary shops specializing in liquid prescriptions tear their hair, the sandwich shop men rub their hands in delight, for many is the edible carried into Mower, Lionel, and Strauss, to stave off that gnawing hunger that comes...

Author: By Ens. R. D. semple, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Scissors & Paste. Since 1918 Gilbert Farrar has been in business for himself. He remodeled some 20 Spalding sporting catalogues. Twenty-two years ago he designed a Vick's Vapo Rub package which is still used. But not until 1936 did Gilbert Farrar strike oil: he streamlined the Los Angeles Times so effectively that the next year the Times won the annual N. W. Ayer award for typographical excellence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Expert on Type | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...York and give Wendell Willkie another chance? . . . He speaks his mind frankly and clearly on matters of public interest and importance. (Ay, there's the rub, he probably does not suit the politicians. But maybe he suits the people.) He has visited and met many of the most important personages of earth-men who will have much to do with shaping the course of events in the next few years, and has won their confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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