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...Harvard senior was found dead yesterday afternoon in a washroom on the third floor of the Mallinckrodt chemistry laboratories. The student was identified as Milton Herzog '63 of Lowell House and Ontario, Canada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Dies | 11/8/1962 | See Source »

...Chase Manhattan's money into paintings, sculptures and many other knickknacks to decorate the new building. Most of the art is the contemporary abstract kind considered proper by that other Rockefeller institution, the Museum of Modern Art, and runs heavily to framed smudges of color (in David's private washroom, there is a Cézanne lithograph). Few Chase executives try to understand their boss's artistic acquisitions, and his family does not share his tastes. Peggy and the children recently assembled a Rube Goldberg statue from pipes, wrenches, tubes and scrap metal and presented it to David in all solemnity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Man at the top | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...occasional cooked vegetable. Through a small grilled window she may look into a chapel, and down a narrow passageway there is another barred window where she takes her daily communion. In the cell is a straight chair, a table, a board that serves as her bed and a small washroom with a cold shower. Not since she closed the door behind her 16 years ago has she ever left this confined area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Nun's Story | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...headstrong rule of his own roost, Gleason had a mixed reputation around CBS: "There is only one way to do things." said the voices in the washroom, "the Gleason way." He refused to rehearse, treated scriptwriters with such scorn that one producer claims "we had to hire a liaison man between Gleason and his scriptwriters." Nonetheless, the company thought enough of his talents to agree to pay him $100,000 a year every year from 1957 through 1972. Gleason does not have to work for the money. It is paid to him simply to keep him from working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Hustler Jackie Gleason | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...trouble looms for Finch when he gets his own "Chinese provincial" executive hot suite as V.P. of advertising. But when he makes silver-dollar eyes at himself in the executive-washroom mirror, and sings I Believe in You, a passionate aria of self-love, it is clear that there will be no doom at the top for Finch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Officemanship | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

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