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...Lovely weather on the Riviera last week." He had launched a career as a spy, impersonating a Vichy officer in occupied France. Caught and jailed in Toulon, Wintle sharply ticked off his guards for their slovenly appearance. He went on a 14-day hunger strike until they agreed to shave. On his third try, he escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Here Is an Englishman | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Tara Singh, white-bearded religious leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs, has strong views about the recent habit among young Sikhs of shaving their chins. "These spoiled youths forget," he said, "that when they are shaven they look like boiled potatoes." And then, because Tara Singh is also an active politician, he went on: "Shave the lion and see how he looks! Are we not a race of lions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Shaving the Lions | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...Under Secretary of Finance in charge of the Budget at 31. At night, Stockholm cops would point to a single light burning in the Treasury building and say, "Hammarskjold's still counting." Occasionally he would stop at the barber's shop for a 7 a.m. shave on his way home from the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: World On Trial | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

TIME said: "... A strange figure among the close-shaven, monocled Prussians, but Zhukov could outfence any of them." Good old Zhukov! I served, 1905-18, as a cavalry officer in the Prussian army. We did not shave our heads, leaving this to Tartars and Mongols. As to monocles, they were the exception . . . Fencing was neither part of an officer's drill nor his pastime. However, it really does not matter whether Zhukov fenced those Prussian officers in or out .. . Shaven-headed, monocles, swashbuckling, heel-clicking, the familiar good old clichés . . . the Erich von Stroheim type created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...does." Some of Republican Hopkins' support ers enthusiastically rushed off in the wrong direction, however, creating a rus tic caricature of a campaign around his homespun look. Ten teams of G.O.P. cam paign workers lined up along street curbs to display rhymed signs advertising Sam Hopkins, like Burma-Shave. An octette of Republican ladies, wearing coonskin caps, trooped around town chanting a six-stanza ode to Sam Hopkins, written to the tune of Davy Crockett. Sample stanza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Big-Leaguer | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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