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Time to Retire. In Denver, Col., suing for divorce, Elsie Kirkpatrick angrily testified that her husband wore pajamas to the dinner table even when she had guests for supper, often refused to sleep in the bedroom, instead spent the night in the bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

Each unassuming page shows why the dizzy decade of Teapot Dome, bathtub gin, flappers, crooners and "It" girls found in him an untarnished symbol of its better self. No Antoine de Saint Exupery, no philosopher of flight, Lindbergh rarely rises to poetic altitudes and sometimes drones on in childhood reveries and me chanical details. But at its exciting best, his book keeps the reader cockpit-close to a rare adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Epic | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...every navigable body of water, from oceans to big creeks, flecks of white canvas dotted the waterscape like daisies in a field. Coming lower, the saucer man could have seen highways specked with thousands of small trailers. On each, trundling for the nearest water, rested wooden hulls, some almost bathtub shaped, others as sleek as streamlined as space ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Design for Living | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...sedative. Shortly after 9 o'clock, she went into the rooms where her two sons, Darryl John, 2½, and Edmund, 4, lay sleeping. Later, the wing commander and his wife found her standing in the bathroom, clad in a sarong, with her slashed wrists bleeding into the bathtub. "I have planned it a long time," said Mrs. Parsons. "If one of us went, the other would not live. I have killed my children. We loved him so much, and you know how much he loved us. He would be so frightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: A Most Exceptional Case | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Armstrong and Dancer Vera Zorina. Sponsor Procter & Gamble tries to captivate viewers with bathtub shots of Mom, Pop and Baby soaping themselves with Ivory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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