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...Corporal Johnny Silver, he had been brooding for months over his broken singing career. "His shirt was open, he didn't have a hat, no laces on his shoes," recalls Silver, now a featured player in Broadway's Guys and Dolls. "He hadn't taken a bath in six months. He hadn't even taken his socks off in six months, and the guy weighed 287 Ibs. He just didn't give a damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Million-Dollar Voice | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...building leaks badly, there is little heat, and the sagging roof is so low that it is impossible to stand except in the center of the room. EUR][ One half of an abandoned garage was rented to a sergeant and his family for $50 a month. There was no bath, no toilet, no water. When a rat bit off the index finger of the sergeant's six-month-old baby, the landlady refused to let the sergeant's wife use her telephone to summon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Anything for the Boys | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...People meet me on the street and ask, 'Have you been confirmed yet?' It's just like saying 'Have you had your daily bath?' I say, 'No, I still stink.' One of my friends asked me, 'Is your sickness just a convenient exit?' I told him, 'It's an exit, but it isn't convenient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Exit with Remarks | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...Helen, thereafter wrote 18 more novels in the same mold, using figures from legend and history (Galahad, Adam & Eve, Francois Villon, Venus) to satirize 20th Century manners & morals. At the end he was still writing his streamlined version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Working title: The Wife of Bath and Her Boy Friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 11, 1951 | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

American Army was a decoy; 2) he thought a negotiated peace would avert a prolonged blood bath and eventual American defeat; 3) the fact that enemy forces held better ground at Monmouth justified his withdrawal tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traitor or Patriot? | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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