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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Standing before [Shamus O'Thames -pronounced O'Tems] naked except for a towel . . . was a strikingly beautiful white woman . . . glaring at him out of aqua marine blue eyes. . . . A cascade of golden blonde hair . . . fell over her face. . . . As will sometimes happen in moments of stress, his gaze focused . . . upon a . . . tiny mole, high up on her left breast. " Scram!" she cried, dashing a bucket of water over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flynn's First Fling | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Ernest Hemingway visited Hollywood Beautician Gloria Bristol (specializing in male customers) for a scalp-&-skin treatment, and learned a new beauty trick-the use of a toothbrush. "He told me," she said, "he always had brushed his teeth with a Turkish towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Chosen Few | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...electric back-washer, consisting of a framework which straddles the bathtub, with an endless scrubbing towel rotating over two rollers, one immersed in the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...Lull. When the Japanese made a move to throw in the towel, U.S. land forces were engaged in no major operations. In northeast Luzon, the 38th ("Cyclone") Division was raising the dust with its mop-up of trapped Japs, taking casualties as' well as inflicting them. In the Marianas, three companies of marines waged miniature amphibious war, seized five islets north of Saipan, lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: To the Bitter End | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Chapman succeeded fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, who tossed in the towel after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chapman's Chance | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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