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Then apply the tanner, working in a circular motion to avoid streaks and rubbing downward toward ankles and wrists to smudge out border lines, Pettitt advises.

Five Ways: To get the perfect fake tan 2011

That will prevent dark blotches in those problem areas, Pettitt and Begoun say.

Five Ways: To get the perfect fake tan 2011

But Pettitt warns that if gloves are not tight enough, the folds may scrape up tanning lotion and produce uneven results.

Five Ways: To get the perfect fake tan 2011

But skip those gritty exfoliating bath products, at least the first time you prepare to tan, says Clara Pettitt, a consumer advocate who runs a website entirely devoted to sunless tanning sunless.com.

Five Ways: To get the perfect fake tan 2011

Newer, gradual tanning lotions can be used daily, at least until you reach your desired color, Pettitt says.

Five Ways: To get the perfect fake tan 2011

The fruit of this effort appeared late in 1935: a slender 116-page volume produced by a writer from Berkeley named George Albert Pettitt, elegantly bound in soft leather and delivered to a few thousand congressmen, senators, journalists, and other opinion makers nationwide.

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How much Kaiser paid Pettitt for his invaluable effort is not recorded, although it is known that Six Companies showed its gratitude by allowing Pettitt to spend his honeymoon in the Boulder City guest lodge, gratis.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Pettitt erroneously gives Jan. 3, 1934, as the date of the accident; see LAT, Jan. 5, 1935.

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He now has 20,894 career points, moving past Bob Pettitt into 27th place all-time.

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“On the average of once every fortnight during the major part of the construction period Death struck down someone on the Black Canyon project,” Pettitt wrote, perhaps the only time Six Companies was willing to put its name to such an admission.

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