Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations on the cleverest cover background design that has appeared on TIME in many months. The contrast of the dark skin of Jackie Robinson and the white surfaces of the baseballs is only a starting point for Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker's ingenious arrangement of the red sewing-lines on the baseballs to lead the eye in & out and roundabout the picture area, and to suggest a celestial dream world of baseball in which the happy First Baseman grins his delight...
John Roosevelt's little-publicized wife, Anne, a honey-blonde, turned up in her evening clothes in a vanishing-cream ad, testifying: "Before I go out-always a 1-Minute Mask . . . my skin looks finer-textured-it looks clearer. And it feels wonderful! Smoother all over...
...flute. Just as significant as any of these gifts, however, were his personal candor and his lack of principle; he fooled and defrauded others, but he willingly, if secretly, admitted the frauds. Frederick was secretive and an adept at dissimulation ("If I thought that my shirt or my skin knew anything of my intentions," he said, "I would tear them off"); he was capable of barefaced sophistry in diplomacy, but he frankly admitted in a private letter and in his memoirs that one reason for his seizure of Silesia at the beginning of his reign was sheer vanity...
...point, during the latter stages of the speech, a figure, clad in what appeared to be a raccoon-skin coat and a bear's head mask crept up behind the speaker, almost reaching the edge of the infield before Yard police set out in pursuit. The intruder, bearing a hammer and sickle, retreated over the board fence surrounding the secret football practice field and was not caught by the rapidly advancing forces...
...Skin a Cat. In Waukegan, Ill., flattered John Stebley, 67, accepted an invitation to join some boys in a football game, survived a pretty rough scrimmage, made it to a bar, discovered his wallet was gone...