Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daybreak on Saturday, April 18, 1942, a bald, slight naval officer with a skin like a dried red apple stood on the bridge of the aircraft carrier Hornet, 850 miles from Tokyo. Marc Andrew Mitscher, muffled in blues, was the captain of the ship; he had small part in the decision reached by Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle (at his side) and Vice Admiral William F. Halsey (aboard the nearby carrier Enterprise) to fly 16 B-25 medium bombers off the Hornet for the first stunt raid on Japan's capital...
...first two of its ten months of life. Observing that the rash was confined to those parts of the baby which would normally touch its mother's hair, he had a sudden hunch. A test on a clear patch of the baby's skin proved he was right: the child was allergic to the hair lacquer its mother used to keep her hair sleekly stiff. Within a week after the mother began to let hair lacquer alone, the baby's skin was perfectly smooth...
Tonight and Every Night (Columbia) reaffirms leggy, red-topped Rita Hayworth's eminence as the most chromogenic of Hollywood's musical actresses; the warm Hayworth skin tones (of which there is a generous but decorous display) are delectably accented by its tasteful Technicolors. The film is also a richly hued dilation on two of Hollywood's favorite themes: the indomitability of the British and the inherent tenderness of show business...
...week in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. Its 162 meticulous, gruesome pictures represented the work of about half of the nation's 50 professional medical artists. There was a portrait of an 89-pound tumor shortly after removal, a thorax without any viscera, a woman being skin-grafted after removal of her breast...
...James F. Didusch, who succeeded him at Hopkins, was his first pupil. On the first day, Brödel gave Didusch a scalpel and the torso of a woman, told him to begin dissecting, drawing each layer as he came to it. Didusch still remembers how surprisingly tough the skin was. Next day a girl joined the class. "Here," said Brödel, "let [her] have half the corpse...