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Democratic King. Louis was 18 when Madame de Beauvais. one of his mother's ladies in waiting, waylaid him as he was coming from his bath, and seduced him. After that, Louis was insatiable. According to his sister-in-law, "all women, peasants, chambermaids, servants' daughters, women of quality" had only to pretend they loved him to be received in the royal bed. His Queen. Marie Therese, had to compete with a succession of mistresses and hordes of passing amourettes until she died. Six months later. Louis' mistress, Madame de Maintenon. became his wife...
...touring the slums. One reporter smugly confessed that she had always thought the Maoris, the civilized descendants of New Zealand's aboriginal tribes, lived in trees. Even the sober London Daily Telegraph said that the Maoris' dances "were rather like a fancy dress ball in a Turkish bath." Most London papers gleefully ridiculed the Maoris for dressing up in the costumes of their ancestors...
...shows try to maintain vague ties to reality. Two of the girls have glasses and sometimes wear them; none of them lives in the marble-bath mansions that Hollywood ordinarily assigns to its movie working girls, and Eve Arden's rooming house is pictured as a place where the plumbing seldom works and the phone bill is often unpaid. All the girls are surrounded by hordes of admiring friends, most of them of such astonishing eccentricity as to make televised life in the U.S. resemble visiting day at London's 17th century Bedlam. Outstanding are Meet Millie...
...Chicago health authorities, ticking off three deaths in Chicago steam baths in recent months "from shock and exposure," called on the city council to ban steam-bath temperatures of more than 100° until the authorities can complete a safety study. (Present conventional ranges: 130° to 160°.) This aroused a storm of indignation among the bathhouse operators. Cried Charles Postl, 72, oldtime Loop steam-bath impresario: "Why, you can't even work up a good sweat at 100°. This is ridiculous. The whole civilized world will laugh at Chicago...
...from the fastest (19 knots) or biggest (22,071 tons) member of that fleet, the Kungsholm justified all Sweden's pride in her. She has an atmosphere of quiet elegance. All cabins have a bath and their own air-conditioning controls; all are outside...