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...toothless bachelor, is the poet as anti-stereotype. The wind that blows on his Aeolian harp comes out mostly as stomach gas. Belching and backfiring, he sits on his toilet seat day after monotonous day composing a narrative poem about the Minotaur. Yet, as manuscript slowly fills the bathtub, Enderby is a happy and fulfilled man. Living off dividends and tiny royalties, he really needs "nothing except more talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet as Anti-Stereotype | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

...sweet bathtub solo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Treasured Ibis Turns Frogman | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

Azaleas too pooped to pop? Fluffy ruffles lost their curl? Pollypoddies look like a tossed salad? Take heart. For every ailment, TV Horticulturist Thalassa Cruso has a remedy: "A highhanded plunge into a bathtub full of sudsy water will do wonders for your plant." If not, well, "then throw it out. You'll feel much happier replacing it with a fresher, sprightlier plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Private Spring Of Thalassa Cruso | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...ELINT, or electronic intelligence-gathering vessel, in any other part of the world. Even in the seamy business of espionage, some gentlemanly rules prevail, and the U.S. and the Soviet Union, as first-rate maritime powers, generally try to observe them scrupulously. North Korea, with only a bathtub navy, obviously feels no such compunction. "The North Koreans have made their own rules," said Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas Moorer, "and they are new rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Pueblo's Wake | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...type to go Hollywood. His fans like to think of him as "jes folks," and he knows on which side his cornbread is buttered. He lives alone in a sixroom house in unchic Studio City with a swimming pool that, by Hollywood standards, is little more than a glorified bathtub. No dual-exhaust Belchfire sports car for him; his speed is a Rambler station wagon. He leaves the wheeling and dealing to his manager, Dick Linke, a Hollywood slicker who limits Nabors to a weekly allowance of $75, pours the rest of his money into California real estate. Most recent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedies: Success Is a Warm Puppy | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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