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Died. Thomas O. Heggen, 29, Iowa-born Navy veteran who turned his wartime experience in the Pacific into the bestselling (more than 850,000 copies) novel Mister Roberts, collaborated with Joshua (South Pacific) Logan to turn it into a Broadway smash hit; by drowning in his bathtub after taking sleeping pills; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Arturo Toscanini, 82, slipped getting into his bathtub, landed hard, put off his trip to Italy for three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Bumstead family life has been a succession of major joys and minor frustrations. Dagwood is forever getting locked out of the house, losing the soap in the bathtub, or flattening the mailman while rushing frantically for the last bus to the office. But nothing really unpleasant ever happens to the Bumsteads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blondie's Father | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Francisco in a strange contrivance-an automobile with the doors welded shut and the windows securely barred. He announced that, living on food passed through the bars, he had been inside for several weeks, was going to stay there (with a bed, a chemical toilet and a collapsible bathtub) for 14 months, thus win the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...U.W.F. movement started in a bathtub, roughly speaking, some seven years ago. Harris Wofford, a student at an eastern high-school, heard Clarence Streit (author of "Union Now") over the radio, while bathing. Inspired by Streit's plea for a supra-national government, Wofford leaped out of the tub and proceeded to form an organization known as the Student Federalists. But it wasn't until after the San Francisco Conference in 1945 that the campaign for One World began to give off steam...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

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