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German Actor Curt Jurgens can enjoy a good many of life's pleasures at his house on the Côte d'Azur-and all at the same time. He need only raise a trap door before his hearth to loll in a red-tiled tub-for-two before a blazing fire, sipping a cup of something, while chatting with guests sitting on fur-covered sofas, and watching his pretty wife Simone whip up a delicious meal. The Jurgens farmhouse is one enormous room, designed for sybaritic simplicity against what Jurgens calls "the inevitable day when there...
...very least. Anderson agreed on both counts but added that he did not have the individual power to allow me to appear before the Committee. He had to ask the Committee's approval for this. This of course was untrue. I went home and soaked a string in a tub of water; it was very hard to push. I also began to read Kafka...
...Kennedy boys were not shy about their bodies, as Widow Dallas discovered when Mother Rose Kennedy asked her to deliver towels to Ted and three friends in the sauna. In the White House, John F. Kennedy once summoned her for an interview while he was soaking in the tub. "I was so uncomfortable that I took a washcloth off the rack and threw it to him to cover up. After all, he was the President of the United States!" Because she was "surrounded by the effeminate men who so often inhabit the world of rich women," Jacqueline Kennedy worried...
...Alumni Resources Committee. Foundation grants, individual donations, and one Federal Government grant also formed a sizable though fluctuating portion of the income. At the same time, the total income of P.B.H.A. reflects primarily the increases in donations made to specific committees. Each committee is, in the Harvard tradition, "a tub on its own bottom." Each is responsible for its own funds and makes no contributions of the operation of the general administration. It was stated that foundations make no grants for central administrative costs. Yet the graduate secretary (half-time), House secretary (full-time), secretary (part-time), and book-keeper...
...admitted that he is not quite sure what his new post consists of. "Since every tub sits on its own bottom now, the conception of a dean as to what the President's job consists of is very fragmented," he said...