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Today the McDonalds live in a seven-room, three-bath fieldstone house in Mt. Lebanon, eight miles south of the Golden Triangle. They live unpretentiously, do little formal entertaining. But informal callers, mostly union men, are constant. At his office, McDonald exercises a prodigious memory, is a stickler for detail. His office furniture includes a dial-studded electric massage chair into which he sinks to be vibrated when he gets fatigued. His staff boasts that he "can work 35 men to exhaustion, but he irritates union wives by insisting that aides stay at home Sundays to be on call...
...ties and landscapes on the backs of turtles, Hope is visited in his garret by a dazzling blonde (Eva Marie Saint) who used to be his wife and is now engaged to George Sanders, a moneyed comic-strip artist whose ego contains more hot air than a Turkish bath...
Tale of the Tub. In Wolverhampton, England, Dr. Sidney C. Dyke blamed Britain's threatened water shortage on "the cult of the domestic bath," wrote to the British -Medical Journal: "It is an obvious fallacy that frequent immersion in hot water has any hygienic value whatsoever. Its appeal is purely sensuous...
...paper was able to settle readers' bets as to his guilt by publishing the note-a full confession. Scotland Yard has also had reason to respect the paper's passion for finicky detail. The full published report on the inquest of a bride drowned in her bath produced letters from readers in remote spots who knew of other bathtub drownings of young women linked to the same man, George Joseph Smith. The story helped to hang...
...Take a Bath. Though Philologist Ross admitted that "silence [is] perhaps the most favorite of all U usages today." the upper classes do have to open their mouths sometimes. They may repress a shudder at saying "Cheers" when drinking, but they will flatly refuse to say the non-U "God bless!" They do not "take a bath"; the U version is "have one's bath." U usage is a nought for the U.S. zero, and what? for pardon! The word civil has a special meaning for the upper class: it is "used to approve the behavior...