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Quick Curl. The Gillette Co. put on sale the Bobbi Pin-Curl home permanent, which eliminates the need for bulky curlers and a neutralizing solution. A woman simply applies the waving lotion, puts her hair up in special bobby pins and gets a wave overnight. Price...
...characters. Among these characters he discerned a primordial image called "the shadow," which was usually embodied in figures like Satan. Others were the "anima" (the "woman in man," i.e., the female component of the masculine psyche, represented concretely in images ranging from Helen of Troy to the modern pin-up girl), the "animus" (corresponding male image, in the female psyche), the "great earth mother" (representing the material aspects of nature), the "wise old man" (personification of the spiritual principle, i.e., God). If all mankind dreamed more or less alike in its legends and religious symbols, it was reasonable to suppose...
...speech had in spots the quality of a bugle blowing "Assembly." It offered no panaceas, but it rang with a kind of hope and strength that Americans have not lately heard from their leaders. The speech also served notice that he plans to pin on Robert Taft the "isolationist" label that the Ohioan heatedly rejects...
...time-consuming. The order one, James, graduated from Michigan and is now head of Time magazine's Montreal bureau. Ted, twenty-four years old and like his brother a Navy veteran, graduated from Swarthmore last year. He achieved fame of a sort on the campus by buying a pin-ball machine and sending it off to his father after the town of Swarthmore had held a confiscatory sale. At present the machine rests quietly in the attic of 17 Quincy Street...
...angry when his girl friend went out with another man that he blacked both her eyes, cut her lip, broke her right arm, pulled her hair, broke one of her ribs, burned her with a cigarette, jabbed her near the eye with a bobby pin, and locked her up, told police his name was Arden G. Goodnature...