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...Nuns at Chambly, she seemed to have changed her mind, asked him to arrange a reconciliation with her mother and the priest. When Mme. Labrecque still refused to recognize the marriage, Nicol sued her and Abbe Collette for $2,000. A few days later Lucile hanged herself from a pipe in the College St. Eugene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Village Juliet | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Pitchfork & Pipe. The sounds carried to the nearby elephant barns. A frail, 58-year-old trainer named Rudy Muller heard them, came running to the arena with a pitchfork and an eight-foot length of iron pipe. He went inside, carefully locked the door, and advanced on Sultan. He stabbed the lion in the side with the pitchfork. The big cat winced and spun. Without a second's pause Muller smashed him between the ears with the pipe. The lion staggered, sat back on his hind legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Death in the Arena | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...delighted with the snowflakes (the kind "that wear well"); but by the Christmas season of 1949, improvements had been made even in this department. Manhattan's Rockefeller Center designed its own snowflakes: they were of plastic, 19 inches in diameter, held by a pin to a 10-foot pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Half-Century: The View from 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Princess Margaret Rose, and one which was gotten up like Sophie Tucker but was labelled Italian Dolly. The undressed dolls are more active this year than ever before. One boasts of a "real soft nose and almost human ears." This one promised also to blow bubbles when given a pipe. They all can drink water this year (though none are built to retain it), and the manufacturers have provided "changes" for those unimaginative mothers who demand that their little ones behave just like them...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Miss Marcia Shohet, a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence, arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon as the attest of three Law School students. The first girl to appear in response to the plan, she complained about the parched-pipe situation in the city and admitted "I haven't washed my hair since Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Shower-Bather Gets No Soap | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

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