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...Running Account. In Pittsburgh, the Bureau of Water Assessors answered a much-mooted question by deciding that a man's daily shower takes $7.50 worth of water a year, a woman's tub only $3 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Victor Moore lowered his bubble-shaped person into a lovely marble tub, assumed a moderately rapt expression, and, clutching his cigar, gave the world a change from the usual bubble-bath picture (see cut). The secret of his basketball-sized bubbles he kept to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Familiar Ring. In Pittsburgh, Pauline Wiseman complained that someone had sneaked into her spick-&-span rooming house, had not only taken a bath but left a ring around the tub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

There are a few really good but long lost Johnny Dodds renditions on Paramount which have just been figs, the Century company. They include "Weary Way Blues" and "Sock That Thing" by the Dixieland Tub Thumpers. Those who fall into the class of D-L thumpers according to Hot Discography are Dodds, N. Dominique, J. Blythe and an unknown virtuoso on the washboard. The Century Company has also reissued a trombone solo by the Rogers under the biological title, "It Hurts So Good." They enclose free with every C.O.D. order a cheery letter promising to reissue a Jelly Roll Morton...

Author: By Robert NORTON Ganz, | Title: Jazz | 9/27/1946 | See Source »

...passers and runners I ever saw. Better than Bertelli. And Fast? . . . at school he ran the hundred in 9.6. Two years in the Army have really filled him out, and if Brown doesn't make All-American this fall something's sure wrong." That's the beginning. A good tub thumper has the same story on everyone who has even looked at a football suit...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

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