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Neither Griys nor Holworthy are especially attractive halls, but large suites make up for this. In the former what used to be two separate rooms has been combined into one apartment with a private bath for the residents. Holworthy has two suites (living room and two bedrooms) per floor with both occupants sharing the same bath...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: 12 Yard Dorms House '55 | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

Applied to such masterpieces as Hans Memling's painting of Bathsheba leaving her bath, Michelangelo's judgment is harsh and crude. Instead of mixing his colors, Memling laid them on pure and thin in overlapping glazes. As a result, the picture seems to glow from within. Its narrow space recedes dramatically to the tiny figure of King David peeping from his terrace. The severely angular composition contrasts artfully with Bathsheba's soft curves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sparkling Burgundy | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...Romans." He came to love her so devotedly that he once paid her a supreme compliment: "Why, my dear, you are more like a mistress than a wife." She said of him: "Dizzy has the most wonderful moral courage, but no physical courage. When he has his shower bath, I always have to pull the string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tory Story | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Clean Getaway. In Phoenix, after William Pilling told police that he got off fairly easily when a burglar stole only $6 and a Stetson hat, he discovered that the thief had also taken a bath, left a ring around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...afoul of a fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini) lolling in a vast Roman bath, clad in a flesh-colored bathing suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slapstick on the Tiber | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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