Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooming house beat a mile for comfort," she said, "and it's a sight cheaper." She kept a change of clothes in a warehouse, freshened up in public toilets, lived on vegetables and fruit, always paid her full fare ($7.14 a week). "I don't sleep as well in a bed," she explained. "The rolling motion of a streetcar is very conducive to sleep...
Tetsuro Furugaki, president of the Broadcasting Corp. of Japan, explained that Terebi would go off the air at 9 o'clock each evening "so that it won't interfere with children's sleep. In other countries, I have seen many households disrupted because children wanted to stay up and watch TV. The development and education of children is our main concern...
Perchance to Dream ... In Houston, Merrick Gillory, suing for divorce, charged that he couldn't sleep at night because his wife slept with a butcher knife under her pillow...
After a long evening at the horn, Jazzman Mulligan finds he is too keyed up by 2 a.m. to sleep, so he stays up until 6 writing new tunes and arrangements. Next Mulligan objective: an enlarged band and a nationwide tour. "I've got to keep moving. I've got to grow...
Coin-Operated Mattress. In Denver, the Gyramatic Co. began sale of a plug-in gyrating mattress for use in hotels. By depositing 25? in a coin slot, the weary traveler gets 30 minutes of soothing movement, which is supposed to quiet nerves, massage away aches & pains and bring sleep. Price...