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...captain and crew. O'Brien, who was once a ship's engineer, may get a paying berth aboard the ferry if a vacancy occurs. The ship went into drydock for its annual overhaul; O'Brien obligingly supervised the repairs. "Since I expect to be on this tub for some time yet." he said last week, "I want her to be seaworthy...
From her perch on the edge of a bathtub, red-haired Denise Delfau swung her pretty legs and contentedly scribbled in a notebook. It was all quite jolly, except for the water that occasionally splashed on to her clothes when the naked, groaning creature in the tub thrashed in agony. And it kept Denise near her lover, a highly unrefined German named Friedrich Berger. For Friedrich, Denise performed the task of inscribing the confessions of French Resistance fighters who had fallen into the clutches of the Gestapo of Rue de la Pompe...
Died. William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, 86, tub-thumping Prohibitionist, lecturer on the evils of liquor and presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket (82,000 votes) in 1932; in Glendale, Calif. Vice President of the Georgia Anti-Saloon League, he went to Congress from Georgia in 1919, served four terms in the House. At the age of 72, he was ordained a Baptist minister and continued his attack on liquor from the pulpit, this year completed a lecture tour in 22 states and seven European countries...
...become "thoroughly familiar with the leash, one end may be hooked to the dog's collar and the other end looped securely around the man's wrist so he cannot get away." As for giving a man a bath, Ford says a dog should jump in the tub himself, with all fours, splashing the man as much as possible, then jump out and shake the water off his coat and on to the man. After that, "run around the yard in circles. By the time he has caught you he will be completely dry again...
...than on his work. ("The book Walden in mentioned specifically, in four passing sentences though there is repeated reference to it as a pond.") Similarly, in a review of Bernard DeVoto's Mark Twain at Work, he ends with the thought that "DeVoto seems determined to prove through his tub-thumping exaggerations that he possesses every temper but the critical temper...