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...Lewis W. Douglas, now Harry Truman's Ambassador to London, had just resigned from the budget post in protest over the New Deal's heavy spending; Douglas had vainly championed a balanced budget. Morgenthau got a hasty summons from Franklin Roosevelt. The President was taking a bath when the Secretary of the Treasury bustled in. "Henry," said F.D.R. blandly, "I give you until midnight to get me a new Director of the Budget...
Here's some of the equipment that fills the Medical Room: there whirlpool baths, two needle baths, one sitz bath, ten radiant heat lamps of various wattage, three infra-red lamps, one ultraviolet lamp, one microtherm, two shortwave diathermes, two long-wave diathermes, and an x-ray machine capable of producing a finished film in something like three minutes. This machine, one of the few college field house x-ray units in captivity, stands loaded during all games to determine fractures...
...leagues been willing to admit Negroes sooner. The grubby life with the Monarchs was a shock to college-bred Jackie. The Monarchs traveled around in an old bus, often for two or three days at a time (the league stretches from Kansas City to Newark) without a bath, a bed, or a hot meal, and then crawled out long enough to play a game. The smart ones got aboard the bus early, rolled up their uniforms for a pillow, and slept in the aisle. "After two months of it, I was for quitting," says Jackie. "No future." He didn...
...Continental Army, and the 71-year-old sage, Benjamin Franklin, first Minister to France. Feuchtwanger does best at picturing Franklin's patient and crafty life in the grassy suburb of Passy, writing and printing his bagatelles of satire on his own hand press, enjoying his hot bath in a lidded tub of his own design (on which visitors could sit while he soaked), gravely carrying on his gallantries with French women and using his popularity to best advantage for his country...
Peale's economy consisted in devoting all his limited strength to the narrowest possible problems. His masterpiece, After the Bath, painted two years before he died in 1825, is a bath towel hanging on a line...