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...whatever name, the goal is the same: to sneak out in the dead of night and shroud the victim's house from chimney pot to privet hedge with yard upon yard of toilet paper, preferably the tinted or floral varieties. The antic is performed by boys or girls, but always in pairs or a group. As Sue Simms, 18, a senior at Silver Spring, Md.'s Montgomery Blair High School, points out, "You need someone on the other side of the tree in order to fling the dwindling roll back and forth." And there are rules as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Threading the Bushes | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...Corporation Secretary Charles A. Wimpfheimer, 38, gets in on the fun now and then. He once installed a parking meter in Cerf's private washroom, probably because Cerf himself started the local bathroom jokes by placing two copies of Lindbergh's autobiography side by side over the toilet, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: A Cerfit of Riches | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...scenes supposedly set in the Chelsea Hotel in New York. There is usually only one audible sound track, corresponding to only one of the screens, but the lessening of confusion doesn't help, since it usually sounds as though Warhol has placed his one microphone in the nearest toilet. That's all right, though, because the dialogue is not essential...

Author: By Laurence Connors, | Title: The Chelsea Girls | 11/28/1966 | See Source »

...servicemen overseas, stores have been doing a brisk business in gifts ranging from toilet kits to packages of fruit, cheese and nuts. Detroit's Hudson's has been advertising a $9.95 "fun kit" for use at the rest-and-recreation areas that contains a case of poker chips, checkers, cards, dice, two empty 12-oz. flasks, a drink mixer, two jiggers, a bottle opener and a score pad. The U.S. Post Office no longer guarantees parcel post delivery by Christmas Day but a present airmailed before Dec. 10 should still reach Viet Nam with Donder and Blitzen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: No, You're Not Dreaming; It's Already Christmastime | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...role in granting $20 million in government loans to the ailing Kyowa sugar combine, but raised their loudest criticisms over a benjo (lavatory) that Matsuno had installed in his private office. Matsuno's aides pointed out that he had ordered the plumbing because "he felt sorry for the toilet guard, who had to salute him every time he entered the public rest room." Matsuno, too, managed to weather the storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Black Mist & Banana Skins | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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