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...past three centuries, a big bathtub. Throughout Tokyo today, where in working class neighborhoods up to 80% of the population still lacks private facilities, more than 1,600,000 men and women immerse themselves companionably every evening in the steaming vats of the city's 2,608 sento or public bathhouses. There Suzuki-san discusses the besuboru pennant race, and his wife, behind a flimsy partition (a late 19th century concession to Occidental prudery), catches up on the neighborhood gossip. The kids make the usual deafening racket but, as one sento enthusiast puts it knowingly, "When everybody is naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Hot Water | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...minutes of cheers. Pierino took seven neat brisk bows. Then he forgot his dignity and gamboled happily up & down the stage. Backstage a reporter asked him: "What do you feel when conducting Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"?" Pierino's prompt answer was at once profound and naive: "Mi sento bene" (I feel fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prodigy in Paris | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...Baker grew increasingly depressed Last week he seemed drawn back to Washington. Pittsburgh police hunted for a day in Highland Park, where Dr. Baker had said he was going to stroll. But it was at "Quail Hill," the morning after the storm, that a pipe-line walker named Steve Sento found the sodden body, twelve-hours dead, pistol in hand and a bullet in the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Death at Quail Hill | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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