Word: tattooist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cecil Lambert bigamously married a WAAF named Terry, had her portrait in full uniform tattooed on his forearm. At war's end a court sent him to jail to atone for the bigamy. Last week the first Mrs. Lambert marched her errant and reunited husband down to Tattooist Charlie Bell to remove the last evidence of his past. In Charlie's shop, Cecil sat patiently while Charlie and his wife discussed the problem of erasing the WAAF...
...moment later a curling snake began to take form on the WAAF. Tattooist Bell, intent on the job, paused to examine his canvas. "You've had a boil or something here," he said. "That's where my wife bit me," said Cecil Lambert. "He rammed that hussy in my mouth," said Mrs. Lambert. "Well, say goodbye to her now," said Charlie as he drew his needle over the WAAF's head...
Painter George Luks: ";Da Vinci is the bunk-a mathematician, a subway digger." >An offer by a Manhattan tattooist to prick the Last Supper in eight colors...
Covering Up. On the East Coast the services seem more conservative. In Norfolk, Tattooist Arthur B. ("Cap'n Dan") Coleman, who has had the same shop for 25 years, finds sailors still wanting girls covered with flags; eagles; anchors with fouled lines. Baltimore's Norwegian Tattooist Einar ("Tattoo Bill") Kluge said last week: "Business isn't as good as it was in the last war, but it's good. . . . Women run to initials, roses and butterflies on the arm and leg, stand up to it better than men, who sometimes faint. As for the Marines...
...genuine Oriental writing between his fingers which branded him as "the greatest rascal and thief in the world." But he was not much more elaborately illustrated than England's onetime army officer, Zebra Man Omi (see cut), who sports a 150-hour job by London's tattooist George Burchett...