Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critic Kronenberger has been enjoying such exercise for the past 14 years. His interest in the theater goes back much farther-to his teen-age days in Cincinnati. The theaters there hired high-school students as ushers, paid them by letting them see the show. By working once a week, Usher Kronenberger got to see all the plays that came to Cincinnati. A few years later he arrived in New York City and began seeing every show he could...
Journalism has produced few more plausible hoaxes than H. L. Mencken's famed essay on the history of the U.S. bathtub. Mencken's yarn explains how a Cincinnati grain merchant named Adam Thompson caused the first tub to be constructed of sheet lead and Nicaragua mahogany back in 1842, how he built a pump with which a team of six Negroes lifted water into a tank in his house, how he ran a heating pipe through his chimney, and finally took the first modern bath...
...said the President, "what about that account I've read of Fillmore's stopping off in Cincinnati . . . ?" Said Hassett regretfully, "That's all in Mencken." "But I've seen a paper the American Medical Association drew up . . ." said the President. Hassett gave Mencken credit again. The President shook his head. "I'd swear those A.M.A. fellows didn't think it was a hoax...
...undiscouraged. Last week, in a speech to federal hospital executives at Philadelphia, the President not only retold the Fillmore bathtub tale, but improved it: Mrs. Fillmore (rather than the President), he said, had installed the first bathtub in the White House, and for her pains had been censored by Cincinnati doctors as an indecent person...
...Hawkins, 69.* After three years of college (William and Mary and Pomona), Scripps served a reporter's apprenticeship on the chain's Cleveland Press, put in a World War II hitch in the Coast Guard, has since worked on the Denver Rocky Mountain News and the Cincinnati Post...