Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When she got to the White House in 1850, ex-Schoolmarm Abigail Fillmore was shocked to find not even a Bible in the place. Pausing only to put in the mansion's first bathtub, the new First Lady installed its first library. But in succeeding years, people kept pinching White House books. Herbert Hoover found the shelves bare. Booksellers chipped in to make up the loss, but Harry Truman scoffed that his own collection upstairs outnumbered the official one downstairs. The Kennedys, soon after arrival, resolved to put in "a working library for the present President...
Last weekend, on a day's visit to Glen Welby, the 800-acre family cattle farm near Middleburg, Va., Philip Leslie Graham, 48, sat on the edge of a bathtub, leaned against a 28-gauge shotgun and fired a single shell through his right temple. He died instantly...
...added five more models to his bathtub navy, including the Rhodes 19 (a 19-footer designed by Architect Philip Rhodes), which, at $3,000, may eventually outsell the Day Sailer. His company sold 250 boats and took in $300,000 in 1958. This year, he expects to sell 1,800 boats. The only trouble with all this growth is that apart from a modest $12,000 profit the first year, O'Day Corp. has lost money every year since, largely because O'Day knew a lot about sailing selling but less about business...
...tell there's an elephant in your bathtub? A. You can smell the peanuts on his breath...
...right spot for the Cavalieri Hilton, declared with the spirit of a Medici commissioning a palace that he wanted it to be "a balcony of flowers overlooking Rome." Whenever Hilton appears at one of his hotels, the staff jumps to give him royal treatment-and sometimes stumbles. His bathtub at the New York Hilton was cracked, and at the Waldorf recently a flustered waiter forgot to serve him the ham he ordered with his eggs. In London he was delayed in a faulty elevator for 15 minutes, and in Amsterdam every spigot he turned in his room produced only boiling...