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...concern. Was it still possible, he wanted to know, to bank the coal fire in one's rooms, and on a cold night take advantage of the current of warm air rising in the chimney? With sufficient skill one could, he explained, feed an entire roll of toilet paper up the flue whence it would drift out on the night air to garland the trees in the Yard...
...list of newspapers, the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe, the Evening American, the Evening Transcript and the Boston AD-VA-TISA, like an incantation. On the first warm days of spring there would be the usual "spring riots" on the part of high-spirited undergraduates, who threw rolls of toilet paper out the windows of their ancient dormitories in the Yard, or snake-danced through the Square--mild stuff by modern standards but considered pretty far out for the times. The Cambridge Police looked on with a certain amount of benevolence and left the nabbing to the college "cops...
...provide this information. Brazelton plans to publish a new book for working mothers in September, writes regularly for Redbook magazine, and appears in a 26-part cable television series that deals with problems such as colic and toilet training...
...booby traps behind, police used a remote-controlled shotgun to blast open a rear door of the building. Searchers crawled through the Victorian sewers beneath the square to make sure that the Libyans had not disposed of gelignite they were thought to possess by flushing it down a toilet. By nightfall, all 70 rooms in the embassy had been examined and no explosives found. Detectives speculated that the murder weapon and any unused ammunition for it had been removed by the departing Libyans in diplomatic bags, which under the Vienna Convention of 1961 cannot be searched...
...only problem was that in the 1950s television censors did not allow toilets to appear on the screen. But with true Beaver like perseverance the show's producers kept arguing and were able to get special dispensation from CBS On October 1952 Leave It to Beaver became the first series to show a toilet during prime time...