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...humming with life once more. On its upper floors dormitories have been set up, shower rooms moved in bodily. A staff of 25 cleans and cooks, as academic affairs cram every old corner during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salzburg Seminar Thriving On Zeal in Wartorn Austria | 8/15/1947 | See Source »

...Showers. Seamen's wages are up to ?24 a month minimum now, much more than before the war, when Labor politicians were yelling that the Queen Mary was a palace for the passengers with slave quarters for the crew. Now each seaman has a curtained bunk with a reading lamp of his own. Seamen have their own bar, plenty of shower baths and much more space than before. The big inducement, however, is the Queen Mary's food and the chance to buy in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: The Queen | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...ring, bloodthirsty fight fans get what they pay for. Before knocking out Rocky last fall, Middleweight Champion Zale acquired a cut lip, red welts around both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped thumb bone and such weak knees that his handlers had to hold him up in the shower. What Tony and Rocky did to each other in last week's return bout, to the loud delight of 18,547 fans, was something to behold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Money's Worth | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...that he had won, but could get only one eye open. Said he: "What? What? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? It's marvelous ... I can't believe it." Into the mike he yelled, "Mama, the bad boy done it." Later, supporting himself with difficulty against the wall of the shower room, the new champion* remembered about that sixth round: "I wanted to kill him. I had nothin' against the guy. I like the guy, but I wanted to kill him. Ya know what I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Money's Worth | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...Electrocution. Doomed people kept for weeks in dirtiness were promised a shower bath. When they entered the cabin they stepped on a high-tension metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Progress Report (Mid-Century) | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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