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The Oldest Search. The search for youth and beauty is as old as woman herself. Thirteen centuries before Christ, when ancient Egypt's Queen Nefertete was the ideal of beauty, Egyptians placed cones of scented unguents on their heads to melt and thus perfume their faces. The Greeks used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Pink Jungle | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

The varsity hockey team must be termed as the year's most puzzling squad. By all rights, this should have been the finest sextet seen at Harvard in a long time. The entire 1956-57 team, which went to the NCAA finals in Colorado, was back with the exception of...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: End of Another Year in Harvard Sports; Recapitulation, Hindsight and Preview | 6/3/1958 | See Source »

The race was rowed under very sloppy conditions with all the boats taking on a great deal of water during the race. The time was therefore quite slow, the winners crossing in 11:02.

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Heavyweight Crew Wins Adams Cup; Lightweights Sweep Elis, Tigers | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

When the evil tidings were borne to him in Hollywood, 61-year-old Walter flew into a Vesuvian rage. Elsa Maxwell, fumed he, is a "fat, sloppy, smelly [unmentionable]." What was worse, said he, she had jeopardized his pet project, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund: "Letters have been pouring in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Titans of Babel | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

THE BLONDE IN BLACK, by Ben Benson (224 pp.; Morrow; $2.95), suggests what too many mystery writers have forgotten: murders sometimes merit sympathy; the police deserve credit for some sense. When Detective Wade Paris investigates a killing at the home of Singer Junie Jacques, he does his job so thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mysteries | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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