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...hybrid culture expressed at one extreme by thatched roofs decorated at their pinnacles with bright enameled chamber pots, at the opposite extreme by minarets of the rigid Moslem faith. It is a community of ruinous houses girdled by a ruinous wall, but it has its two-story hotels with shower baths and roaches, and is proud of its hideous castellated palace. There are grubby plots of decaying vegetation and gardens with flowering fences of euphorbia and brilliantly colored birds. Its tedj houses, half saloon, half brothel, are marked over the doorway with a traditional red cross - which caused some...
...natured mathematics whiz who ate in the Automat, wore no hat, and dabbled at writing plays in which he admitted he could never make the heroines sound natural. Blessed by President Roosevelt and Bill Douglas, no-smoking, no-drinking Bill Martin took up his $48,000 job amid a shower of bouquets from all sides...
...trial was that of a Negro butler-chauffeur accused of raping his young socialite employer, Eleanor Strubing, pretty wife of an advertising executive in Greenwich, Conn., suburb of New York City. According to her testimony she found him in her bedroom one evening when she emerged from a shower bath wearing only a towel, was raped thrice in various parts of the house, bound, gagged, threatened with a knife, taken for two automobile rides, finally thrown into an icy reservoir near which she was found hysterical. The Negro's defense was that she had invited his advances. A jury...
...shufflers. Unlike most national championships, this tournament was marked by fun and frolic. Spectators and contestants chatted back & forth, on every subject from the blizzards back home to next summer's crops. A stray dog scampered on to the courts, gave the players a merry chase. When a shower started, everyone adjourned to a covered grandstand, spent an hour singing old favorites...
Henry Reed of American Radiator and Charles Nolte of Crane (neither of whom got a drip of Mack's shower) knew exactly how it was done. By buying directly from manufacturers, Purchaser Mack had eliminated the wholesaler's commission. To the tradition-soaked leaders of an industry which believes in the sanctity of the wholesaler's discount and in the wholesaler's friend, the master plumber, as the only true outlet to the public, this was heresy. Adherents to The System, like Crane and American Radiator, call the renegades d-t-u's because they...