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...easy to pollute a Hindu temple. Even a Brahmin can do it by entering a temple within ten days after the birth of his child, or if he has had a haircut and goes in before taking a bath. Until recently, when a civil law eased the ban, Untouchables could pollute a temple just by blundering beyond the main gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Conservative | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Britain, the overvalued pound made touring comparatively expensive. In London's first-flight Dorchester Hotel, for example, a single room with bath cost $11 a night. Britain's rationing system was also stricter than on the Continent, but the meals, plain though they might be, were reasonably priced (the government had pegged them at $1). In the provinces, food was better, and hotel prices (about $4 a night) lower. Britain's best lures: dollar tourists could buy clothes and get enough gasoline to drive 600 miles in two weeks, 1,000 in four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exodus '48 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Clark has a nice wife (Anne Baxter) in the States, and, by all that's Hollywood, he must go back to her. So Lana has to be disposed of finally-but not until her fans have seen plenty of Lana at the operating table, Lana at a Roman bath, Lana in the Battle of the Bulge, Lana on her deathbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...pound singles (weight refers to oarsmen, not sculls), 4:00--R. F. Bath, Jr. '50, S. A. Richardson '50, W. O. Peterson '48, and E. C. Dobbs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Top Scullers Vie For Darcey Cup In Annual Races | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

Ripe Old Age. In Des Moines, 83-year-old Floyd Caldwell was picked up by police, and finally subjected to a bath - his first in 66 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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