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...take two lengths of garden hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...bought a monkey as a pet, and the monkey bit her. I pulled the phone out by the roots. I went down to her sister Rose's house and shot out all the lights in her driveway. I pushed her in the swimming pool. I turned the fire hose on her friends when they came to see her, and when they got inside, I let the air out of their tires. I'm a beast." Added Marion: "I took him back. I don't know why. I guess because he's standing right beside me, crying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Horizons | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Blows & Ice Water. "At daybreak, the cops returned and gave me back my clothes. I was blindfolded again, led into another room, and placed in a spinning chair. They spun it until I vomited with nausea. Then I was knocked to the floor, beaten with a rubber hose and doused with ice water. After that they took me to a cell and left me alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: The Ordeal of Mario Quinonez | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Balance what the Hose relinquished against what they gained. They lost an inconsistently powerful, hopelessly clumsy first baseman, a utility infielder clearly past his peak, an outfielder who failed to stick with two other clubs, a perennially "promising" left-handed pitcher, and a young third baseman with his career still unassured...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 6/5/1952 | See Source »

...elected president of Botany Mills, Inc., to succeed his father, who died last month. While still at college (Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce), Johnson went to work as a part-time apprentice for the company, later directed the expansion of the consumer products division (neckties, hose, knitting yarns, etc.), which now accounts for more than 50% of Botany's sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Mechanic Makes Good | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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