Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George VI and Queen Elizabeth were in good shape, but by the skin of their teeth. On their way to the Derby they suddenly took a detour, after an ill wind had slammed down a tree on an auto ahead of their...
...experimental uniforms, of which 150 have been tested, work on the "vapor barrier principle." A netlike string vest is worn next to the skin. Over it are parkas of mohair and rubberized nylon, with drawstrings to regulate the air flow. Thus clad, white men can stand a wind chill of 1,400 as well as an Eskimo...
Chess & Cape. Still slender and erect, Gide has a leathery brown skin, sharp eyes and decisive gestures. His rambling Left-Bank apartment is shared with stout, 82-year-old writer Maria Van Rysselberghe, her daughter and son-in-law, Newspaperman Pierre Herbart. Gide's daughter, Catherine, now in her 20s, lives near Paris with her husband and two children...
...vision, impenetrable skin and muscle, Superman has been no great shakes in a courtroom. After a falling out with their publishers a year ago, Siegel & Shuster filed a super-suit for $5,000,000. Among other things they demanded the rights to their creation. (Like most comic-strippers they had signed away all rights.) As the suit dragged on, the publishers lured other artists to draw Superman, although the strip still carried Siegel's & Shuster's names. Last week, in Manhattan, Newspaper Broker Albert Zugsmith arranged a settlement: Siegel & Shuster got $100,000, and National Comics Publications...
...legwork,* revealed that the bananas came to Austria as part of a barter deal between Russian occupation forces and the Italians. Viennese really owed their thanks to a Soviet inspection officer who, it appeared, had never before seen a banana. The inspector had chomped a big bite of one-skin & all. Tasted horrible. His ruling: ". . . Unfit for Russian military personnel-dispose of them on the Austrian economy...