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Observers gasped as a reluetaut shoulder strop slid down in the direction of her elbow, but Marie merely chuckled. "I can hold it up from behind," she averred, leaning forward to clasp her dimpled knees, the better to display a small jewel-encrusted watch on her left wrist...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Stripteuse Displays Pet Bangles for Crime | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

...doing things and concede that in Mexico one must proceed in the Mexican way, he will find the average Mexican approachable, friendly, and lots of fun. The first sign that he understands how things go in Mexico comes when he decides that a watch is irksome to the wrist, puts it away and depends thereafter on brief glimpses of street clocks, which are almost invariably wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Basil Rathbone, 55, came a painful cropper. His black police dog, Maritza, snapped the leash while the two were strolling in Manhattan's Central Park; Maritza leaped a high wall and dashed into Fifth Avenue traffic; Rathbone tried to follow suit, fell over the wall, broke his left wrist, and fainted. Skipped: one performance of the Broadway hit, The Heiress. Thereafter he villainized with his arm in a cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...just before dawn, and a cold fog hung over the marshes below Klamath Falls, Ore. Two men squatted in a crude blind. At 6:23 a.m., a flight of canvasback ducks wheeled confidently in. Muttered one of the men: "They got wrist watches on ... they know it's too early for shooting." The hunters inhaled cigarettes, took a nip from a bottle of bourbon, and waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fine Weather for Ducks | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Sorter, however, found more serious opposition than siwash spirit when he collided with a construction machine and overturned his vehicle. The mishap resulted in lacerations of the left wrist for him and a broken nose for his date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Jaunt in Wreckage; Cronin Sees All Quiet on Bar Front | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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