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...body. He had clawed at the Venetian blind as he fell. Slumped in a chair at the desk, facing a big picture of Harry Truman, lay Charlie Binaggio. Someone had put a pistol close to his head, and fired four times. The water, coming from a clogged toilet in the hotel above, dripped on the bare floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Murder on Truman Road | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...John Citizen have a toilet? If so was it inside the house or outside-or did he just have a privy in the backyard? Did he have a television set? A refrigerator? A furnace? If so, did he use coal, coke, wood, utility gas, bottled gas, liquid fuel, or electricity? Did he have a kitchen sink? Where did he live-in a house, apartment, flat, trailer, tent, boat, railroad car, rooming house, hotel, jail, or tourist camp? If he rented a furnished house, what would it rent for unfurnished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CENSUS: The Big Count | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Breen demanded two cuts: 1) the shot of the little boy "about to make his toilet against the wall" and 2) all the interior shots of a bordello into which the hero chases the thief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Censor's Censor | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...University of Illinois' College of Education describes it: "From an era where the mother was taught that the child must have his physical wants cared for and then be left alone, must be fed on a rigid schedule, must learn to cry it out, must be toilet-trained early and must not be spoiled by attention, we have come to a time when exactly the opposite advice is advocated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bringing Up Parents | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Today the mother is advised to feed the baby when he's hungry, to delay toilet training until he's ready for it, to see that the baby gets a reasonable amount of cuddling and mothering, to let the baby initiate the weaning process . . . There appears to be considerable question whether the new doctrine is any sounder than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bringing Up Parents | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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