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Most Faithful Friend. In Baltimore, the National Safety Council reported, a dog belonging to Ruth Patterson spied a pistol on a washstand, put his paw on it, shot his mistress in the hand as she relaxed in the bathtub...
...Molly is 13, and puzzled over whether she should become a Catholic or a Buddhist, she is even more puzzled to find that Ralph has acquired mysterious male interests of his own. One night, staying with her uncle on a Colorado ranch, she goes to her room, pushes the washstand against the door, and gives her diary a piece of her mind. "Ralph," she writes, "has gone beyond the pale. I am his permanent enemy and do not know whether I will ever speak to him again. ... I intend to read all of Sir Walter Scott, Dickens, Stevenson and James...
...rooms and a bath is the standard student apartment-two rooms complete with a fireplace each; and a bath complete with a tub measuring 3 1-2 feet in length, an old-fashioned pull-chain toilet, and a marble washstand. Paul Miller '46 and his wife, Marjorie, have one of the few suites which is equipped with a shower. Necessarily, too, claims Miller, who measures 6 feet-seven, a height which Brunswick tubs were obviously not designed to accommodate...
Died. John Logic Baird, 58, a canny Scot who turned an uncanny trick in 1924 when he switched on a homemade gadget (set up on a washstand in a garret over a flower shop), a moment later saw the first picture ever televised flicker on a screen two yards away; after influenza; in Bexhill, Sussex...
...Hodges Way. This week, back in its slugging stride, the First looked to Hodges for something new in his bag of tactics. In his trailer (built-in bunk, washstand, two chairs, a desk) he went about the business of battle much as he had gone about the business of training...