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...floor. Another snapped handcuffs on him. Cornelius rushed up from the engine room. The pirates covered him as well. Then all the ship's officers and forecastle hands, seven in all, were herded into an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. cabin in the bow. There was no toilet, little air, and before dawn the pirates painted the portholes black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HIGH SEAS: Lucky & the Jolly Roger | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...years along Manhattan's Ad Alley, hard-driving Duane Jones has been called the "box-top king." Working on such accounts as Bab-O, Sweetheart Toilet Soap and Tetley Tea, he plugged the products by distributing millions of box-top premiums. After he started his own agency ten years ago, Duane Jones Co., Inc.'s billings rose spectacularly, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Jones Boys | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...sympathetic in human nature. He has spent most of his life in Bechuanaland, and he joins the Halberdiers with a "vast accumulation of ant-proof boxes, waterproof bundles, strangely shaped, heavily initialed tin trunks and leather cases." As an antiseptic precaution he has his "Thunder Box"-a portable chemical toilet built of oak and brass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: War Revisited | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Fraternity players flocked to the field house in answer to the coaches "plea." Retaliation was in order the following year at Cambridge, but two Crimers visited Hanover first to foil the plans. Bombing the Yard with toilet paper, kidnapping some Lampoon "fruits," and dyeing the Charles green were among the abortive projects...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Green Visitors Annually Paint Cambridge Red | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

...Under Home Entertaining: "If you have a septic tank or cesspool, you need to explain [to house guests] that . . . facial tissues . . . should not be thrown into the toilet bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gracious Living for All | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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