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...Custodians of the Statue of Liberty were giving the inside of the old lady a coat of hard enamel and planned to enclose the stair in wire netting. Reason: visitors have had a habit of scrawling their names on the wall in kissproof, scrubproof lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...most ingenious cosmetic artists in the world can do. In the end, it decided that it was impossible to do anything for her that nature had not done already. Hornblow agreed (Jack Dawn really knows his stuff). Deborah's face photographs beautifully with nothing but a base, lipstick, eyebrow pencil and a minimum of highlighting. Then Hornblow and Director Jack Conway studied the hairdressing tests very carefully (L.B. believes in trying everything on film), expressing their feelings in low hieroglyphic grunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Born | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...magazine . . . consists of 325 large quarto pages, of which no less than 15 are given up to articles on world politics, literature, etc. The rest consists entirely of pictures ... of ball dresses, mink coats, step-ins, panties, brassieres, silk stockings, slippers, perfumes, lipstick, nail polish-and, of course, of the women, unrelievedly beautiful, who wear them or make use of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: A Real Physical Type | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Though critics accuse Stephens girls of spending more time on their lipstick than on their Latin, amiable Dr. Wood has built the college from a 1912 enrollment of 52 (and a $100,000 deficit) into a thriving academy that picks & chooses its lucky girls. Stephens has had such attractions as 75-year-old Maude (Peter Pan) Adams as a dramatics teacher. Talent scouts-who are called "admissions counselors"-give prospects the onceover, report (among other things) on their "comeliness" and home-town popularity. Stephens prefers not to waste its makeup, clothing and budget clinics, its courses in nutrition and home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Man in the Ladies' Den | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...only living person who could write about China as though it slept under her pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally-at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick. Nonetheless, Raffles of Singapore is a lively, unconventional biography, which is also as formless as a conversation conducted by walkie-talkie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Emily & Tom | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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