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...Cook can't even Boyle an egg," replied his assistant. "I've been eating Brennan butter Knight and day. If I thought a Kissel improve her cooking, I'd Reilly Troy. She thinks she's DeAngelo my life, but I'd like to Kelleher...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Purple Burple Bursts At Holy Double Cross | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

They are looking for "the absolute of sex in feminine flesh." Or more exactly, they are searching for the properly lascivious features that are required of Helen of Troy as the Bard envisioned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.T.W. Looks for Lips and Hips To Launch That Thousand Ships | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

Neither, however, can be compared to Helen of Troy, about whom historians differ. Whether her face launched or on the contrary sank a thousand of Agamemnon's ships is still a meet point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.T.W. Looks for Lips and Hips To Launch That Thousand Ships | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Anti-Semitic Twist? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...maker of brand-name shirts (Arrow), but its largest single source of profit is not from shirts at all. It is from "Sanforizing," a process for pre-shrinking fabrics now used for almost all U.S. cotton clothing. Last week, Cluett, Peabody invited a group of bigwigs to its Troy (N.Y.) home to look at a new $1,000,000 research laboratory and two new processes designed to 1) prevent wool from "matting," thus making it easily washable, and 2) pre-shrink rayon as Sanforizing does cotton.* Cluett, Peabody also showed off a new president: youngish (41), ruddy Barry T. Leithead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Song of the Shirt | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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