Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist oath, which the Taft-Hartley Act requires of all labor leaders whose unions want the all-important services of the National Labor Relations Board. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington, convinced by the Justice Department that Gold's conversion was no more than skin-deep, indicted him on the charge that he had perjured himself by signing the NLRB affidavit. Had the grand jury delayed one more day the statute of limitations would have rendered 55-year-old Ben Gold immune to prosecution...
British sportswriters made remarkably uncricket exhibitions of themselves. Wrote the Daily Mirror's Peter Wilson: "We took them by the throat and scruff . . . We took them neck and crop, bag and baggage, hip and thigh, skin and bone, and we bundled them out . . ." Retorted an Aussie writer: "No trumpets yet, England...
Thus one of the most popular artists in Manhattan's Chinatown, the late Charlie Wagner, advertised his pictures. Until his death last New Year's Day, Wagner was one of a race of picture makers whose canvas is the human skin. The history of his profession is outlined in a short, bright book published last week: Pierced Hearts and True Love, by Hans Ebensten (British Book Centre...
Shortly thereafter sailors began to acquire skin pictures in foreign ports. It was thought that a seaman who could stand the pain of having a full-rigged ship tattooed on himself would automatically make a good topman. By the late 19th century Japan had come to be considered the chief home of the art. Aristocrats from around the globe visited the studio of one Hori Chyo, in Yokohama, to obtain such delicate decorations as a fool-the-eye fly tattooed on the hand. London's Sutherland Macdonald was the first European practitioner of any pretensions; among other designs...
Strange Deception. An often moving story of an Italian postwar vendetta, written and filmed by Novelist Curzio (The Skin) Malaparte (TIME, June...