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...last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw. The Australians had already won two and tied one, so (though there was a fifth match to play) the English had no chance of coming out even. London's sensitive press complained about Australia's Turkish-bath weather, "fit only for Nubian slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Not Like Croquet | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Lustron promised to produce 100 houses a day by September, sell them, erected, for approximately $7,100 apiece. Lustron's No. 1 model, the "Esquire," contains two bedrooms, living room, dinette, kitchenette and bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Cash for Lustron | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Colonel Blimp nearly fainted in his bath: in Health Minister Aneurin Bevan's leftist Tribune had appeared a headline: "Nationalize the M.C.C." The M.C.C. is the Marylebone Cricket Club, blueblooded governing body of the national sport. Wrote poker-faced George Harrison in London's News of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Not Cricket! | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...port of Guayaquil (pop. 170,000), which shares most of the water troubles that plague the capital. Guayaquil will get a system of artesian wells to supplement the present source of supply, the stinking, putrid Guayas River. Eventual goal for capital and port: plenty of water to drink, a bath a day for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: A Bath a Day | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...carefully opened her skull (using a local anesthetic), sliced into the frontal lobes of the brain, cut most of the nerve connections to the thalamus (crossroads of the brain's nerves). The patient said: "I feel dopey." After the operation she cried, sucked her thumb, splashed in her bath like a two-year-old. But in a month, she acted like an adult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kill or Cure | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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