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...place, with a gorgeous curving front staircase, eight intricately detailed fireplaces, and plenty of doors and nooks and crannies. As with any new house, there’s the fun in discovering the hidden secrets. The bathroom wall had a torn yellowed piece of antique newsprint pasted above the towels, with a poem entitled, “A Guest Towel Speaks.” “Please use me, Guest: / Don’t hesitate / Don’t turn your back / Or vacillate / I’m here to use / I’m made for drying / Just...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Dog House | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

...Stumpf says. “[Last time] we had this weird idea about making an understated record for some reason, but we’ve grown out of that. If the new songs weren’t better, I’d have to throw in the towel...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Concert Review | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

...Collecting is the worst,” a freshly showered, towel-clad Melvin says. “Maybe I’d give out less tickets to sell next time, but this way, it becomes the people’s party...

Author: By Jason D. Park, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting The Party Started | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

...Coming Clean U.S. hotel chain Holiday Inn declared its first Towel Amnesty Day, inviting light-fingered guests to send in their tales of petty crime - but not towels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Watch | 8/31/2003 | See Source »

...always, desperation breeds innovation. Everywhere, people exchanged tips on how to survive: some took showers with their clothes on and then went to bed--wet. A colleague recommended sleeping with a frozen towel over your face. Other people descended into the catacombs, where 6 million skeletons were pleasantly cool. Mto France, the national weather service, posted hopelessly quaint tips: wet your draperies, and maybe even spritz a little perfume on them to sweeten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Parisians Perspire? | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

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