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...Hard Way. Rosen's old-pro versatility has not come easy. As a prewar bush-leaguer he seemed so hopeless in the field that a Class C manager took one scornful look and said, "Listen, kid, you'd better go home and get yourself a lunch pail. Forget about baseball. You either have it or you don't. You don't." Al ignored the advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top of the League | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...Barn 20, two sets of Vanderbilt horses had already returned from workouts. They were led up a neat row of peppermint-striped water pails. At each pail, a groom swabbed down a horse with a sponge of warm water, then covered him with a bright "cooler" (blanket). Then the "hot walkers" took over, for the lowly but necessary job of walking the work-hot horses for 30 minutes or an hour, until they have been gradually watered and cooled. For the Dancer, the day was just beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Big Grey | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...responsible for the new trend is salty, 7 2-year-old Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachern of Chicago, longtime head of the hospital-standardization program of the American College of Surgeons. "When I came on the job in the '20s," says Dr. MacEachern, "tissue specimens were thrown into a pail. Nobody bothered to save them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Watching the Tissue | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Impressionists. In Springfield, Mass., Custodian Alexander Caranicholas went to the hospital and Custodian Frank Klupa went to court after fighting over the use of a mop-pail in the Museum of Fine Arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

They heard Smith moving his furniture, tapping the floor, stomping about, vacuum cleaning, banging the garbage pail, shoveling coal at all hours of the day & night, digging after dark in a garden by the Masons' windows. As soon as he went out, his telephone began ringing. Then they began hearing hit, new clocks-a half hourly loud chimer and an especially vigorous cuckoo clock-right above their bedroom. The Masons moved their bed into the living room, a maneuver that did not escape Smith's stethoscope. The clocks moved into the room directly above. Once during a three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Battle of Bedlam | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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