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...call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have shined his shoes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Frills | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

From Ireland: "This is a pretty place but nothing compared to Iowa. I am sending you some shamrock I picked. It grows just like our clover. . . ." From Texas: "So this is Texas! You grab a towel, fumble for soap and run out of the tent into the flawless darkness of a Texas morning. And what mornings! Ten million stars an arm's length above you. The air is brisk, often biting. The pungent smell of wood smoke is everywhere. . . ." From Italy: "Here I am in an old Italian house and we have a fire going in the fireplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Servicemen | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Three days before the filing deadline for Texas' primary elections, 42-year-old Martin Dies threw in the towel instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Dies Out | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Never have I read such a funny story, and I've fished for steelhead (and caught a few) in Oregon and Northern California. I have yet to see anyone using "walnut-sized gobs of goof" for bait and a "fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait." Sounds" too much like cleaning a stopped sewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1944 | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...coffee cans and bicycle baskets. Now they use 15-ox. rods & reels with jewel bearings. Equipment includes cans of "goof" (salmon eggs) for bait, a spool of red thread (to tie walnut-sized gobs of goof on the hook), a whiskey bottle and a "gob rag" - a fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwinter Mania | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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