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MARTYN GREEN'S TREASURY OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN (717 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $ 15). A boon to bathtub bassos of willing voice and weak memory: the complete librettos, with piano arrangements, of eleven of the best G & S operettas. With charming illustrations by Gilbert and annoying sketches by a modern artist, Lucille Corcos...
...scrubbing the boat bottom using diving gear. Manufactured by Boatbath, Inc. and made of polyvinyl chloride, Boatbath comes in sizes ranging from 24 ft. up to 40 ft., is priced from $150 to $295. The boat is floated into the Boatbath (which, in turn, floats like a huge bathtub, with its edge at the water's surface). The open end of the Boatbath is pulled closed; pellets of calcium hypochloride (swimming-pool chlorine) are dropped in. Thus the boat is floating in a bath of chlorinated water, which inhibits the growth of both barnacles and grass. A dose...
Despite the glitter which the Associates furnish for their customers, the operation remains relatively simple on the inside. For example, Johnson still washes the glasses in his bathtub and keeps twenty cases of mix in his room because there's no other space for storing them...
...begin with," said Gordon, addressing a meeting of the National Safety Congress in Chicago, "it is completely unrealistic even to talk about a foolproof and crashproof car. An automobile must still be something that people will want to buy and use. Safety, in any environment from a bathtub to a bomb shelter, is a relative term, not an absolute. In the case of the automobile, we can only design into it the greatest degree of safety that is consistent with other essential functional characteristics. Beyond that, we must depend on intelligent...
...Holly, the child bride from Tulip, Texas, who at 15 runs away to Hollywood to find some of the finer things of life-like shoes. At 18, she is established in a posh Manhattan flat and living off the fatheads of the land. The flat is furnished with a bathtub (sawed in half to make a sofa), a refrigerator (containing a pair of shoes), a telephone (in a suitcase), a pink cat (without a name) and a bottle of Scotch (for wetting Holly's whistle and Scotch-and-watering the flowers). And every Thursday. Holly dutifully goes...