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...head in and announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed a handkerchief over his shaven pate. "Ai-yah," he groaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flee Where? | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...little man had sent his wife a lock of hair and a long fingernail clipping. This is the custom of Japanese who expect to die. Last week, under klieg lights that gleamed on his shaven head, Hideki Tojo smiled and nodded as sentence was passed upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Hidoi! | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Talk. The dictator, now shaven, rolled upright in the hammock and dangled his legs like a man astride a horse. "Nothing," said he, "unites men quicker than a threat, so it was inevitable that we dictators should get together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: I'm the Champ | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...president's collar was quite a thing to wear. When Palmer took charge of the company in 1929, it was wilting badly. Cluett, Peabody sales, which reached a peak of $32 million in 1919, had been based on the Arrow Collar, as worn by women, and the clean-shaven, cleft-chinned Arrow Collar Man, a creation of Artist Joseph Leyendecker. From a million billboards and car cards, his coldly correct profile mounted on an Arrow choker gave feminine hearts a guide to male perfection. Like his culture mate, the tightly corseted Gibson Girl, the Arrow Collar Man disappeared from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Song of the Shirt | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

High Prophet. Those who greeted him included men in loincloths, women with bare breasts, pious Hindus with shaven heads, Moslems boldly wearing red fezzes. One aged grandmother had come six miles from her village to see Nehru. After glimpsing him, she said patronizingly in her vernacular: "He's a nice enough looking fellow." She confided she had expected to see some sort of a king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Some Sort of King | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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