Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penn cry for a riot, similar to Harvard's "Rinehart" (TIME, April 8). The legend goes that in 1910 tippling cronies of one Joe Rowbottom disturbed the campus night so persistently by shouting his name that indignant students threw wash bowls and pitchers out the windows at them...
Hefty Louis Cortese, 31, had worked for Hearst and for Stage magazine. Dark-haired Jack Begon, 35, had run a shortlived Cosmopolis (Wash.) weekly, had done make-up on the San Francisco Chronicle. Lean, Groucho-mustached Bill de Meza, 28, had reported for the Plainfield (NJ.) Courier News...
...SHAFER Shelton, Wash...
...tone of his voice, the tilt of his chin, and the way he tackled his orange juice, cereal, and eggs." He got F.D.R.'s valets to pass on to him any pertinent details. He learned to peek unobtrusively at the height of the presidential workbasket and "the wash" (F.D.R.'s name for the countless documents that required his signature), to estimate the hours of work the President had before him, and to lay plans accordingly. He came to recognize the types of people who encroached on the presidential reserves. One thing in "Uncle Joe" Stalin's favor...
Advertisement. Near Olympia, Wash., the "Fun in the Sun" nudist camp expelled a female member who pub-crawled between sessions, livened things up by handing out photographs of herself in the nude...