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...Paul Marat's bathroom in 1793, he was in his high, churnlike tub and she stabbed him to the heart. When Siamese soldiers and sailors stormed last week into King Prajadhipok's Bangkok bathroom (see p. 18), made by Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., the big U. S. bathtub was empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PLumbed Artforms | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...plumbing annually reaches new esthetic and utilitarian highs. Last week King Prajadhipok missed new plumbing highs in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. A magenta watercloset built all in one piece of porcelain stood alone on a green throne, simpler than Prajadhipok's. A seven-foot bathtub surnamed the Bourbon Luxury was flooded with soft lighting, framed in banks of peonies, on a marble stage. The National Association of Master Plumbers' annual exposition was definitely art-conscious. The Master Plumbers claimed that their "glorification of the unmentionable" had evolved a "new conception" of the bathroom. The New Bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PLumbed Artforms | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...sardonic bachelor with long tapering hands, who was educated to be a mechanical engineer. He creates five new model bathrooms every six months for private exhibition to architects, decorators, plumbers. He designs Fostoria glassware too, invented the square-bottomed glass. He designed King Prajad-hipok's empty neoclassic bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PLumbed Artforms | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

Birth Control Shelved, To the satisfaction of every opponent of Birth Control, notably Episcopal Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins, who keeps snakes in his bathtub and graces every meal with a verse from his ponderous Bible?Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee was in an exasperating fix last week. After several years' effort Mrs. Sanger had persuaded the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives and the Judiciary subcommittee of the Senate to consider duplicate bills which would permit physicians, hospitals & clinics complete freedom to learn about contraceptives. Fortnight ago the House committee ?at the insistence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. at New Orleans | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...Chicago, Mrs. Adele Jackson, 72, filled her bathtub with kerosene, jumpd in, struck a match, burned to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Guelph | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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