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Cliff Johnson, 36, got the idea for the show in 1941. One morning, when, his firstborn, Sandra, was only 18 months old, he took her to the studio with him, was officiating on a telephone quiz show when Sandra piped up: "Daddy, I have to go to the bathroom!" The listener response was so great that Cliff thought: "By golly, this could really be something." But radio was not yet ready to let a family run loose on the air. Besides, Cliff didn't yet have a big enough family. By 1947, the Johnsons had three more children...
...another occasion, the tub in his old bathroom began to sink through the floor when he was in it. He asked the madam what she would have thought if he had fallen into the Red Room when she was having one of her receptions for the ladies of the D.A.R. She didn't think it was funny, and wanted to slap his face...
...them . . . There's $1,000 in my bag over there. Take that and I won't turn you in." One of the holdup men seemed to hesitate. One swore. The first one snapped: "Watch your language; ladies present." They ordered Miss Parnis and her secretary into a bathroom, barricaded the door, and left with $114,800 worth of jewelry, plus...
That, as it happened, was just what little "Ag" had in mind. Unfortunately, she was constructed more on the lines of a young duck than a young swallow, but hour after hour she exercised in her mother's bathroom, gripping the towel rack for her barre, to pull herself into the classic shape...
...Foreign Ministry in Prague? Afterward, when the body lay in the morgue, the new Red regime made its announcement: Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk was so depressed by letters from British and U.S. friends denouncing him for collaborating with the Communists that he climbed through the small window of his bathroom and plunged 60 feet to a stone-flagged courtyard...