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...need fixing. Among his guests last week were three Canada geese, a very angry golden eagle named Sergeant, an albino cardinal, a mourning dove, two red-winged blackbirds and a raucous blue jay with a broken wing. Menaboni makes pets of many birds; ducklings have swum in his bathtub, bobwhites have made themselves at home in his living room and a screech owl has perched on his easel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Audubon's Heir | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Grand Larceny. In Tulsa, under cover of darkness, thieves made off from Mrs. Estelle Franklin's house with her bathtub, gas stove, kitchen sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 20, 1950 | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...announcement from NBC stated simply that "the return of Arturo Toscanini to the podium . . . has been postponed by the maestro." A year ago he had slipped in his bathtub and hurt his knee; this season, said the announcement, there had been a recurrence of the ailment. Fritz Reiner would conduct the first three concerts, beginning this week, and Toscanini's plans for the new season would be announced "at a later date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shove-Around | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Gone are the square, bloated, inverted-bathtub lines of the old models. The new cars are slimmer and more graceful (see cut). Said Packard Engineer Jesse G. Vincent: "We had to fall in line with modern design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: New Team | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Kind. In Sidcup, England, Mrs. Annie Skinner willed to Norman Butler, who had done her plumbing free, her bathtub, sink and water heater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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