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...cross I have to bear," Epstein retorts, "and Bennett is the bear I have to cross." Corporation Secretary Charles A. Wimpfheimer, 38, gets in on the fun now and then. He once installed a parking meter in Cerf's private washroom, probably because Cerf himself started the local bathroom jokes by placing two copies of Lindbergh's autobiography side by side over the toilet, thus...
Most of Cerf's puns and gags are better than bathroom humor-but not much. He tells about the fellow named Kissinger who had his name changed so many times that soon all his friends were asking "I wonder who's Kissinger now?" And about the piano tuner named Oppernockety, who never returns to fix a bad job because Oppernockety only tunes once. Or the Indian chief who was delighted to learn that his two youngsters had been invited to join the yacht club; the chief had always wanted to see his red sons in the sail...
...even in parietals cases there are extentuating circumstances, for example when a girl is sick or needs to go to the bathroom, and these cases do not always result in firing...
Widener's ladies' rooms date back to the days when girls' were not encouraged to study there, Richard DeGennaro, associate librarian, said yesterday. The small, dingy bathrooms will be retiled, repainted, relighted, and enlarged. On the main level, workmen will close off an alcove outside the bathroom and turn it into a powder room...
...young boys who live at Perkins do the same things as the students at any other boarding school -- including playing practical jokes. One night, a group of boys in a dormitory set up a trap for one of their mates who had gotten out of bed to use the bathroom. While he was out, the boys built a precariously high stack of soda bottles in the entrance of the room. The boy returned, his hand gliding against the wall for guidance; he crashed into the bottles and woke up everyone in the dorm...