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"What is it, please?" asks Miss Leckton testily. The gale from the ocean is blowing harder & harder. She tries to hold down her skirts with one hand, her greying hair with the other.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Trespassing | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

No Veils, No Skirts. In 1925, when A.U.B. introduced coeducation to the Lebanon, it did much to liberate Near Eastern women. Today unveiled Moslem girls mingle with men on the Mediterranean-edged campus, play tennis in shorts. Beirut's 1,000 graduate doctors now battle trachoma, typhus, malaria throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Where East Is West | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

At home in Springfield, Vt., he is the progressive chairman of the board of the crack Jones & Lamson Machine Co. His labor skirts are clean. The United Electrical local at J. & L. is on record to the effect that he has given it "absolutely fair treatment." The natives know he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Yankee Liberal | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Last week they knocked off work, got happily into velvet jackets or laced bodices and flowing skirts, tapped 300 kegs and 2,500 cases of beer and had a celebration even bigger than their annual Wilhelm Tell festival. The occasion: the town's 100th anniversary fete.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: 101 Years of Yodeling | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

*For Spanish politicians, sex has long been an unnerving problem. Ten years ago, even Spain's rugged, hardheaded Anarchists found time at a moment of acute national crisis to grapple with the question of public nudity. Their last national convention, meeting in Saragossa's bull ring a few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Honi Soit . . . | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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