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...finally, just as September had begun to tint the dogwood leaves, they managed a meeting. A little after nine o'clock that evening their father received identical telegrams...

Author: By Jerome Burke, | Title: Morticians' Journal Tells Of Unfortunate Romance | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...religion of healthy-mindedness--ranging from the creeds of professional mind healers to the poetry of Whitman--that he deals first. "It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, perhaps more often feminine than masculine, and young than old, whose soul is of a sky-blue tint, whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions, who can think no ill of man or God, and in whom religious gladness, being in possession from the outset, needs no deliverance from any antecedent burden...

Author: By William D. Phelan jr., | Title: William James and Religious Experience | 5/14/1963 | See Source »

...clutch the dyes as they arrive and form them into a tough, many-colored surface that reproduces the colored image focused by the camera's lens. The picture needs no further treatment. Its blues are sometimes slightly greenish at first, but after a few moments the excess green tint disappears permanently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photochemistry: Sudden Color Film | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

Barbershops ain't what they used to be. The once familiar "thin it out some on top, and no machine on the sides" has given way to an operation that sometimes lasts three hours, may include everything from a permanent wave to an eyelash tint, and can cost as much as twenty bucks. Like ruffled shirt fronts and cuff links the size of poker chips, it all seems to have started in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Handsome Is | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...were, always standing in front of the mirror combing their hair. I knew I was right." At Bayard's Studio, a man can get his hair cut and styled, shampooed and reset in about 45 minutes for $3.75. A permanent wave is $12 to $15; lash and eyebrow tint, $1.75; toupees run from $275 to $300. No shaves. No shines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Handsome Is | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

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