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Since Christmas just three rains have fallen on Bogota. But not one drop has touched the city's reservoir, 15 miles away at Regadera (which means "shower bath" in Spanish). Intimidated by the brassy skies, duly alarmed by the nearly empty "shower bath," local authorities last week urged all Bogotanos to get out of town if they possibly could. Some water mains were already dry. Schools were beginning to close down. Washing an automobile was declared a crime...
...book, George Harvey Bone is a frustrated newspaperman and the jealous lover of a compelling brunette girl of the streets. When Netta spurns his advances, George provides the reader with some pleasant food for bedtime though by drowning her while she gambols in the evening bath. The late Laird Cregar, Twentieth-Century Fox's discerning choice for Bone, was forced by a more puritan plot to strangle a fully-dressed wench with a strip of drapery...
...Dirt. In The Bronx, Aaron Hulah, 65. sued his landlord for $35 damages, testified that he had been barred from taking a weekly bath in the house tub, was thus forced to take 52 round-trip subway rides (a total distance of 1,500 miles) to public baths on the lower East Side for a total expense of 70? a week.Ruled Judge Michael Delagi: "Hulah gets the moolah...
Applicants for furloughs must have "at least three broken limbs . . . the Order of the Purple Heart with at least two Oak Leaf Clusters ... at least five of the following medals: Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Iron Cross, Order of the Knight of the Bath, Navy Cross, Legion of Merit, Hero of the Soviet Union...
...About August the same fools who said it last August will be saying that the war will be over by Christmas. But they will be wrong as usual. The German Army, now composed entirely of eight-year-old boys, men over 80 and old women in Bath chairs, will break through at the place they always use for breaking through. This will cause wide-eyed astonishment at Allied headquarters . . . while that old Swedish haberdasher who is always flying between Berlin and Stockholm will be telling correspondents that the German civil population has almost reached the breaking point...