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...gambling Las Vegas, he played one nickel in one slot machine. It was, he said, a ritual that he performs each time he goes to Nevada to watch A-bombs - "dipping my toe in the water at a famous bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...country inns still charge only $3 for bed and breakfast. In Spain prices are as low as $2.50 for a room, $2 for a dinner, including wine and cognac, but rooms in good hotels are as scarce as American whisky. In Germany a de luxe room and bath costs $6 or less and a man-sized steak with a half-bottle of wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Biggest Season | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...soon as all ladies had left the Yard, the residents of Holworthy would come charging down the lawn, taking off their clothes as they ran. The goal of so strange a chase was the fountain erected each year to commemorate Class Day. Eventually the practice of taking an annual bath in the Yard spread to the whole college...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Holworthy Hall | 5/13/1955 | See Source »

...second atomic submarine, General Dynamics' Sea Wolf, is under construction by the company), the prospect of big, new orders for Convair's intercontinental ballistic missile, Atlas, and rumors of new mergers in the works. The most recent rumor, that General Dynamics would merge with destroyer-building Bath Iron Works, was denied by both companies. But Wall Streeters are sure that more, and bigger, mergers are on the way, since Hopkins is always looking for likely prospects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Another for General Dynamics | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Hell with Philosophy." Yet he showed intestinal fortitude at the rarest moments. When The Seagull flopped miserably on its St. Petersburg opening, Chekhov went home, "gave myself a dose of castor oil, took a cold bath-and now I wouldn't even mind doing another play." When the 37-year-old Chekhov collapsed from a tuberculous attack in 1897, the great Tolstoy stormed past the nurses to soothe the patient with bedside chitchat, but stayed on to argue that a work of art only fulfilled its function if an uneducated peasant could understand it. By the time Tolstoy left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power of Negative Thinking | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

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