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Duress Occasion. In London. Robert McNally was able to get his marriage annulled after testifying that his beloved had grabbed his best shirt and soaked it in a bathtub until he promised to go through with the wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 2, 1952 | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Other independents fumbled around with their styling and interiors; technical improvements were either minor or non-existent. Kaiser for example changed hood ornaments and tacked a chrome-plated tire case on the rear. Studebaker dropped its needle-nose, and Nash swapped its bathtub body for one designd by Italy's Pinin Farina that couldn't help being an improvement...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: All New for '52 | 3/21/1952 | See Source »

...Marching Society. But he sends his boy & girl to Eastern schools to sap up "assurance." His kids baffle Jeff. Why did Tom become a commercial artist instead of coming into the business? Why does Tinker feel Gateway is dreary, her family "common"? Jeff yearns for the simple days of bathtub gin and Coolidge prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Babbitt | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...maid who arrived in mid-morning to clean the San Francisco apartment of Mrs. Theresa Butler, 60, thought that her employer was dead: she was lying in a half-filled bathtub and could not be roused. The doctor who came at the call of the apartment manager also thought that Mrs. Butler was dead. He could find no pulse, his stethoscope revealed no heartbeat. A mirror held before her mouth and nostrils showed no breathing. The eyes seemed lifeless, and Mrs. Butler's body was cold. Though the doctor estimated that she had been dead for hours, rigor mortis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: They Thought She Was Dead | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Many a Tokyo diplomat, particularly those from China, Indonesia and the Philippines, had paused even while enjoying' his bath, to ask how a country so impoverished that it could not pay reparations could still afford such a bathtub. Their questions finally reached Premier Yoshida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tempest in a Tub | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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