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Hayes-B. for "Baby" Wood, the goonboy of the glades, who's another stalwart candidate. Last on our list is our fabled buddie, King Nielsen--tyrant of D-23. His quiet mannerisms perhaps don't match Bill's smoothness or Ted's conversational approach, but "Showers" ain't fur behind...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/10/1945 | See Source »

...turn in his grave. On the great stage of the roofless, littered Cologne Opera House a skinny little doughboy, shrouded in the pretentious livery of Siegfried, sang "Saint Louis Woman . . ." to a buxom, bearded, Brünnhilde. A G.I. strode past, sporting a foot-high Cossack hat of white fur. Romeo, a Matterhorn of meat and muscle, was there, and Juliet, too, her black wig on backwards. One battle-grimed dough-foot had abandoned his bazooka for a slide trombone. Seven pianos were going at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Bringing Cologne to Life | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...help publicize a new kind of super mink fur (marketed by the Quebec Fur Breeders Cooperative Association), Eleanor Roosevelt went to Manhattan last week and accepted an $8,000 mink coat. Two days later, at her regular White House press conference, the newshens were waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Gifts from Near & Far | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...Size of It. In Harrisburg, Pa., a newspaper ran an advertisement: "Wanted. A quilted high chair that can be made into a play table, pottie chair, rocking horse, ice-refrigerator, spring coat, size 18, with fur collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 12, 1945 | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

Soon a small male figure in a fur-collared overcoat knocked, entered, pulled off his gloves, delicately measured Madame for alterations. Heaven be praised, it was all over. In a week Madame would have her gown. She might also have pneumonia, but she would not be shabby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Heroism of Keeping Clad | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

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