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...careful," warned our redcap, Chester, as he carried our suitcases to our second-story sleeper on the silver superliner. "Your bathroom has two buttons--one to flush, one to turn on the shower." Sure enough, our deluxe bedroom had a private "bathroom" with a shower right over the toilet and a drain on the floor! Hmmm. Our compartment also included a long sofa-like seat (which converted to a double bed) with a view out the window and a chair across the way. There was also a berth near the ceiling, accessible by ladder, to be pulled down later. However...
Truman traveled in the ponderous and luxurious private car named Ferdinand Magellan, originally made for President Franklin Roosevelt. It was paneled in oak with four staterooms, bath and shower, and 6,000 lbs. of ice for air conditioning. The car was sheathed in steel-armor plating and 3-in. bulletproof glass. When they were out in the open, Truman liked the train to hit 80 m.p.h., and he would watch "our country" slide by while telling stories and sipping a little good bourbon--ready at each stop to "give 'em hell" and introduce "the boss," Bess Truman. The most famous...
...Commercial Appeal that had been slipped under our door, we were nearly into the station at Greenwood, Miss., where a few local passengers boarded. Our breakfast companions were Claudia Ogle and Alma Holloway, a retired secretary and a bank administrator from Toledo, Ohio. When I mentioned that I had showered in the toilet-shower combo, they looked as scandalized as if I had announced that I had sunbathed topless on the engine roof at full speed...
...least in those ancient days, we chess addicts had to shower and shave and step out into the real world to get a game. Now, alas, we can roll out of bed in a total state of nature, unkempt and decomposing, and play, and no one knows the difference...
...night in camp, after a shower in a wooden cubicle offering a stunning view of the stars, Moss contemplates why she never tires of watching elephants. "If you sit at an airport and watch the people, it's interesting but only two-dimensional. If you sit and watch people you know, say, at a family gathering, you see the uncle who lent some money but was never paid back, and you know all the family quarrels. It becomes so three-dimensional when you have all that history, so much more interesting. I don't think I could ever leave this...