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...eleven finalists at the annual Atlantic City contest. She is Venus Ramey, a 19-year-old secretary who entered as ''Miss Washington, D.C.," became the first redhead to win the title. Height: 5 ft. 7 in. Weight: 125 lbs. Bust: 36½. Waist: 25. Hips: 37½. Thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Discoveries, Homebodies, French Footnotes | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...legs but I think we can save one testicle." A marine was set down with a shattered kneecap. "Sure, he'll be as good as new," said the doctor, when someone asked if the marine would walk normally. Then came a man who was shot through the thigh, another who had at least five wounds around his chest, neck and right arm, another with a chest wound to whom the doctor said, "What's the matter with you, son?" The boy told him and said he had been shot about noon. "Keep him level," said the doctor, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospital Ship | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Little Ben yelled his indignation. Ushers rushed to silence him. Tante Chasha smote them hip & thigh with her umbrella. "He's a bright boy," she roared, "and he's got a right to complain. . . ." "Mrs. Swernofsky," begged the manager, "I am really surprised. ... I must ask you to apologize." Tante Chasha shattered the remains of her umbrella on the manager's head. Then she whisked little Ben away. "Remember what I tell you," she said. "That's the right way to apologize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aunt Chasha's Umbrella | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Procuna did some brilliant work with a brave, black Piedras Negras bull named Meloncito. Stepping out with the muleta before the kill, Procuna stopped to salute a friend in the stands. As he did so Meloncito charged, tossed him, goring him in the thigh. He leaped to his feet smiling, played the bull brilliantly and then killed it. The crowd went mad as he limped out with his white pantaloon and stocking red with blood. At the infirmary they found his wound was four inches deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Bad Season for Bulls | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...wife. "Behold the rascal," they cried, "who allows himself to have a wife entirely to himself in San Francisco!", Then one put his hand on his revolver and said: "We want to see her!" One Irishman shot Giovanni through the shoulder while the other drove a knife into his thigh. Giovanni blew out one man's brains. The other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dumas Returns | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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