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...photographed the Club des Sous I'Eau in Paris. My photograph showed its president, Commandant Le Prieur, its vice president, the scientist Jean Painleve, and other members cavorting under water in diving masks, shooting off their underwater guns and wearing water lungs...
...their hair every day, bathed every Saturday and used many other such frivolous means of setting off the beauty of their persons." As late as the 18th century, when residents of Edinburgh threw slops from fifth-floor bedchambers with the cry "Gardy-loo!" (from the French gardez I'eau, or watch out for the water), Europe's sanitary arrangements consisted of ordure without decorum. The first British patent for a water closet was not taken out until 1775, although da Vinci had designed one nearly three centuries earlier...
...spurn, but come to expect and even to exact the servant's tribute. Komsomolskaya Pravda told of barbers who "scalp" non-tippers to show them up as "cheapskates," and Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income now comes from spraying overpriced Eau de Cologne on customers, thus raising their bill for a 2-ruble haircut to 10 rubles. Soviet Culture printed a cloakroom attendant's confession that on a good cold night he took in as much as $20 in tips...
Liberace allowed that the fragrance of Eau de Cologne often accompanied him at the piano and even to press conferences, where, said Liberace, it joined the effluvia radiated by unscented newsmen: "I always smell clean and fresh. I have noticed the smell of the press many times." But he did not think that his use of cologne justified the Connor column or the highly suggestive Liberace parodies that the column inspired in London cabarets during his 1956 visit. * How did he feel about homosexuality? "I am against the practice because it offends convention and offends society...
Under medical treatment in Rome, the ailing Imam of Yemen, 67, was suffering from arthritis, also reportedly from the effects of chewing too many qat leaves (a common Middle Eastern narcotic), swigging too many flagons of eau de cologne (he likes the stuff), and leaning too heavily on aphrodisiacs. In keeping with Arabian face-keeping, the oil-rich Imam arrived in Rome last month with an entourage of about 90 assorted Yemeni, including several Cabinet ministers, scimitar-bearing guards, three of his Queens, 23 concubines (who, according to the Italian Foreign Office, are not genuine harem types, "just slaves...