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There's where the washroom and the soap and towels grow...
...roads, trapping his opponents, calling out the troops, and boasting, "There are not many people in the United States who are smarter than I am, and none in Louisiana"-when Huey Long, with five bodyguards now, and a passionate, vituperative voice, was being hit in a Sands Point washroom, clowning and shouting in the Senate, posing in green pajamas, filibustering in a torrent of disconnected sentences, plodding Sam Jones was unexcitingly being chosen State Commander of the American Legion (and keeping the Legion out of politics). When Long launched his Share the Wealth Plan, fast-growing Lake Charles, with...
Efficiency Expert Guy T. Viskniskki swept down on Gary Bok's Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger office last November like a wolf on the fold. Shortly thereafter towels from one of three racks disappeared from a Ledger washroom, but Expert Viskniskki denied it was any of his doing (TIME, Jan. 15). Last week unhappy Ledger newsmen to the tune of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, were singing under their breath...
Sirs: ANENT COL. VISKNISKKl'S APOPLECTIC DENIAL OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR TOWEL CURTAILMENT AT PHILADELPHIA EVENING LEDGER, IT MAY HAVE BEEN SHEER COINCIDENCE BUT SHORTLY AFTER THE COLONEL WENT TO THE NEW YORK JOURNAL IN 1930 . . . THE CITY ROOM WASHROOM WAS TRANSFORMED. LIQUID SOAP DISPENSERS WERE RIPPED OUT OF THE WASHBASINS, AND RAGGED CHUNKS OF DIRTY BROWN LAUNDRY SOAP LEFT IN THEIR PLACES. THE CLOTH HAND TOWEL MACHINES WERE WRENCHED FROM THE WALLS. AND SPIKES WERE DRIVEN ON WHICH WERE HOOKED TORN BATCHES OF COARSE BROWN WRAPPING PAPER FOR TOWELS. THE LIGHT WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE CEILING...
Said Publisher Bok: "My wife gave me a new gun for Christmas-but the Colonel gave me both barrels." Efficient Visniskki showed him how he could save the Ledger "a staggering sum." One way: to leave the middle paper-towel rack of three in the men's washroom empty. Another way: to get rid of Stanley Walker...