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Powell, who looks like Santa Claus with a shave, twice refused to testify before Senator Homer Capehart's Banking Committee. Last week, called up again, he refused again-to avoid incriminating himself. But other witnesses were more obliging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Money Man | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Legend. Brando's closest friends admit that he often needs a shave, and that regardless of the company he is in, he belches or scratches as the need arises. Although he now makes as much as $200,000 a picture, he is often without matching trousers and jacket; until very recently he preferred blue jeans for all social gatherings. The day he arrived in Hollywood, Marlon honored the occasion by dressing up in his only suit, but somehow failed to notice that the trousers had a hole in the knee and a slit in the seat, through which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...Senate Foreign Relations Committee had already cut almost $350 million off President Eisenhower's $3.5 billion request. Long wanted to shave it another billion, but on that he was voted down 48 to 38. Promptly, he tried for a half-a-billion cut, and this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Price Aid? | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...cables in turn are controlled by a pushbutton that can be worked by the other hand, by blowing through a tube or by pressure under the armpit. The metal hand has already enabled handicapped individuals to write, use the telephone and eating utensils, brush their teeth and even shave.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Methodist Layman Everett Mills Hosman, who has been training church ushers for about ten years, told an interdenominational meeting of church ushers in Memphis, Tenn. that "ushers can louse up the service or make it more worshipful." No good usher, said Hosman, uses strong after-shave lotion, wets his thumb when handing out bulletins, or grasps a lady around the waist or by the arm in showing her to her pew. Expert Hosman's advice on how to get people to sit up front: don't give out the bulletin right away, but use it as "bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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