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...Egan brothers became quiz stars because Bachelor William got mad at Garry Moore: "I was watching I've Got a Secret one night, and the man's secret was that his great-grandfather had constructed the first U.S. bathtub. I said to my mother that the man was mistaken." Bill wrote Garry Moore a caustic letter pointing out that all his facts about the first bathtub were based on a famed newspaper hoax written in 1917 by H. L. Mencken. Garry Moore never answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Moneymakers | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...later years she learned to gush at the models that bored her, and to look bored at those she intended to promote.) Her suite at the Ritz was invariably a bedlam, with delivery boys, salesmen and hatboxes filling up the living room; Hattie herself sometimes held forth in the bathtub, shrewdly appraising the hats and accessories that were brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Lady with Taste | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Diabolique are you if you guess who's in the bathtub. Don't tell your relatives, or the man in the yellow shirt will get you. Rocks around the clock from 10 'til 10 every two hours. At the Beacon Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 2/24/1956 | See Source »

...decide that something must be done and, in a remarkable display of Gallic logic, convince themselves that murder is the answer. They feed Paul a sleeping potion (Simone professionally raises his eyelid with her thumb to be sure he is really out cold) and then drown him in a bathtub while the camera records every detail with an evil relish-right down to putting a heavy bronze lion on his chest to keep his head under water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...doing a hotcakes business in a $3,000 "bride's special" -wedding kimono, TV set, gas range, refrigerator, washing machine, furniture, trousseau and a supply of salad dressing -while the enterprising hotelkeepers of Atami, Japan's Niagara Falls, offered special rates on honeymoon suites with "a bathtub just big enough for two." November is Japan's traditional wedding season,* and with 700,000 couples either wed or affianced, this year's season promises to be perhaps the biggest since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MacArthur Marriages | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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