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Word: tanning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself. They found him listed as second mate and refused to let him land. For the next two months Manila witnessed a bizarre spectacle. Lewin protested that he was being heartlessly separated from his loving wife in the Manila penthouse, eventually earned a hearing. Day after day Judge Bienvenido Tan journeyed out to Lewin's ship to hold court aboard, at last ruled that Lewin was undesirable and could not enter the country. Off sailed the Maria Ines, but that was not the last Filipinos were to see of Ted Lewin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plug-Ugly American | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...nightclub. Each time his temporary visa expired, Lewin managed to get it renewed-first by the President's Cabinet, then by the President's executive secretary, then by the Foreign Office, the fourth time by the President personally. When his time ran out early this year, Judge Tan-the same one who had once barred him as undesirable-ruled that Lewin was entitled to the status of permanent resident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plug-Ugly American | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Aside from albinos, the most susceptible sun victims are redheads and blondes. Ironically, Dr. Knox noted, fair-skinned people, who are usually most anxious for a tan, run the greatest risk in the process. Olive-skinned people, who run less risk, do not need the tan anyway. (Blonde women, Dr. Knox added unchivalrously, show their age more than brunettes-mainly because of the obvious aging effects of sunlight on their skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Sky, Big Burn | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...cream containing one of the best chemical screens known, para-amino-benzoic acid, will increase it a hundredfold. So .will the newest chemical sunscreen family, the benzophenones. Trouble with benzophenones is that they absorb all rays at the spectrum's blue end-including those needed for a fashionable tan. So Dr. Knox suggested that redheads and others with exceptionally fair skins who do not want to freckle use a shutout benzophenone preparation. Others less sensitive may use a para-aminobenzoic acid preparation, which will pass rays to provide a safe tan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Sky, Big Burn | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...George, whose early-October Palm Springs hospitality the Eisenhowers were returning. As they chatted on the platform, Mamie looked at the overcast, said to Mary Allen: "If the sun doesn't shine, Ike will be mad." Ike, sporting the National's green blazer and a grey and tan checkered sports shirt, replied confidently: "Don't worry, it will burn off." Sure enough, sunshine poked through the clouds that afternoon; after some paper work at his office above the pro shop and lunch with Mamie and the Aliens, Ike had his round of golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Eye on the Sky | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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