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General Marshall had risen early, breakfasted at 8, looked over the Sunday papers, gone out for a horseback ride. (He usually rode for 50 minutes.) He was in the shower when an urgent message arrived by telephone from General Miles' assistant. He finished his bath, dressed quickly and went straight to the War Department. The time...
...achieved fame as the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. This poker game, which Heywood Broun once asked to be kept going till 10 a.m., "so I can make my picket line," and which has been known to run for 33 hours,* is for Grouse "the most refreshing mental bath I can get." The club has a West Coast "branch," and "with luck and a plane," say Lindsay & Grouse, "we can make both games the same week...
...male enrollment in the conference, and home games in Bloomington drew so poorly that the team played mostly on the road. First crack out of the box this season, the worm turned with a 13-7 upset of Michigan. Last week the Hoosiers gave Pittsburgh a 19-0 mud bath. This week, if they get by their traditional "Old Oaken Bucket" set-to with Purdue, the unbeaten but once-tied (by Northwestern) Hoosiers will wrap up their first Big Ten (now nine) crown...
...these studied bass tones, a new advertising campaign last week rose to full cry. Its purpose was to sell the average U.S. male something he had always skittered away from buying-a line of for-men-only cosmetics, ranging from perfumes to bubble baths. In the nation's stores, bashful men fingered flashy bureau and bath sets, shaped like whiskey bottles, perfume bottles sporting horsehead corks, pictures of big game. One Midwest manufacturer crowed over a solid gold shaving bowl worth $1,875, without the soap. ("Boy, that's luxury...
...clerk, gold prospector (he panned $87 worth of gold in six months) and adman. McKelvy got his idea in 1939 while sharing the apartment of a lady friend (absent) with another man. The roommate rummaged through cosmetics he found, just for fun gave himself the works-including a bubble bath and a cologne rubdown. He enjoyed it so much that McKelvy thought: "Why wouldn't other...