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...cream-and-green private room, with his fractured femur fastened together by steel pins, Vegetarian Shaw sat up to munch on nuts and fruit, listened with gusto over a portable radio to BBC reports on his progress. When a nurse finished washing him, Shaw grumbled that he wanted a bath certificate: "Otherwise someone will come along tomorrow and want to do the same thing again. Too much washing is not good for antiques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: To Remember You By | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Judge Charles A. Walsh awarded Mrs. Beatrice M. Lussier exclusive use of the family cottage in Woonsocket, R.I. until her countersuit for divorce could be heard, provided only that the husband "may return to the above-stated residence one day each week for the purpose of taking a bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 11, 1950 | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...Khan, as most newspaper seeders well know, married movie star Rita Hayworth. The Aga, who is the weighty king of a suburb of India, receives every year presents of gold and diamonds equivalent to his weight, and sells his bath water (used) to his people...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Aly Khan's Brother Arrives; Shuns Family's Press Lives | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...Bath in the Clouds. This dramatic feat stirred up a flurry of premature rainmaking. Barnstorming pilots took off with dry ice to knock down fleecy clouds. They did not knock down much rain. For one thing, they often picked on the wrong clouds, e.g., the stratiform (layerlike) clouds, which unless very thick do not contain enough moisture to matter. And they were inclined to overdo, choking the clouds with too much dry ice. A piece of dry ice falling through a supercooled cloud creates enormous numbers of ice nuclei. Too many falling pieces of dry ice create too many nuclei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather or Not | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Glaring Error. In Greenfield, Mass., after a neighbor thoughtfully warned a shapely housewife that several men had watched her taking a bath, investigation proved that the one-way glass of every bathroom window in a new 72-unit housing project had been put in backwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 21, 1950 | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

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