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...sign on the bathroom door was underlined in uncompromising red: "Please keep door shut. Keep out of this room-and I mean it. KEEP OUT-H.L." The initials stood for Harold Lloyd, filmdom's famed funnyman, but this time Funnyman Lloyd was not joking-at least not out loud. At 58, he has turned serious part-time artist, and he was about to hold his first one-man show. No one could blame him for being protective about the 40-odd paintings cached away in one of the bathrooms of his 22-room Beverly Hills mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: It's Tremendous | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...blazed away. She shot two men dead, one of them the cook. Then, taking careful aim, Mrs. Raynes-Simson killed the man who was struggling with Mrs. Hesselburger. The Mau Mau fled, with both women in hot pursuit. Dorothy Raynes-Simson found one of her attackers hiding in the bathroom and shot him, too. Then she called the cops and asked them to collect the corpses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Ladies & the Pangas | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...woman thought her visitors were public-health inspectors, pointed to a malodorous closet, exclaimed, "The proprietor's got a bathroom all in marble." In the growing darkness, Baudouin lit his way with a flashlight. Boys ran ahead of him calling, "The King is coming." In one crumbling house, when the King wanted to go upstairs, the residents were aghast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Education of a King | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...named winner of the $10,000 Dr. C. C. Criss Award, given annually by an Omaha insurance firm. ¶Every year there are about 28,000 fatal accidents in U.S. homes. Most dangerous places, says the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., are the bedroom, kitchen and stairs: "The much-maligned bathroom [is] a relatively unimportant factor." ¶When Rancher Jack E. Johnson of Santa Rosa, N. Mex. took his wife Paula 20, to Santa Fe, doctors knew that she was doomed by acute yellow atrophy of the liver, doubted that they could save her unborn offspring. They tried anyway, and just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...after day in 1944, Denise took her place in the bathroom of Herr Berger's apartment and inscribed notes, while Berger and his band of German and French accomplices methodically beat Resistance secrets-and sometimes the life-out of their captives. Their system for getting a victim to talk was simple but effective: they would hold his head under water and flog his neck and back with rubber hoses. Sometimes, when the captive was a woman, Denise would oblige by holding the woman's legs while torturers performed their varied rites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gestapo of Rue de la Pompe | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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