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...only congressional junket he ever took was to nearby Baltimore. He and his wife Polly (they have two grown daughters) live in the same unfashionable apartment building that they moved into when they first went to Washington in 1939. Their Arkansas residence is a little one-bathroom house that might be the home of a factory hand. They have excluded themselves almost completely from the Washington social whirl, almost never accept an invitation. When they do go out to dinner, it is usually in company with friends or constituents from Arkansas...
...Chicago, Charlene Scanland was primping in front of the bathroom mirror one morning when a hoarse voice came out of the medicine cabinet saying: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?" Replied Charlene, without pausing to analyze the situation: "You are." Later, the owner of the mystery voice came around to find out who had answered the query so sweetly. He was a handsome bachelor who lived in the next apartment, but the story had no romantic ending for Charlene: he married her roommate instead...
Gargle, Rattle. Dwellers in the new "luxury" barracks in many U.S. cities have discovered that the bathroom is no longer humanity's last haven of privacy. Built back-to-back in most buildings for reasons of economy, with thin walls, echoing acoustics and interconnecting ventilators, bathrooms have turned into monitoring booths. Whether they want to or not, tenants soon become all too familiar with the showering, gargling and flushing schedules of their neighbors...
...involuntary eavesdropping is not confined to the bathroom: occupants of Manhattan's vast Washington Square Village have long complained that they can lie in bed at night and hear magazine pages being turned in the bed next door. "I know they are reading magazines," says one tenant, "because newspapers rattle more." Packing-crate partitions often reveal more than reading habits, and in many a new jerry-building, whole floors of amateur Chapman reporters dread facing one another in the elevators in the morning...
...Smadel. occur in groups within a single family after grandma has moved in to help care for a younger generation. If grandfather is with her, he is not likely to have much to do with food handling. But grandma takes over in the kitchen. If she is careless about bathroom cleanliness (the bacilli are transmitted from fecal matter only through food and drink), she gives the youngsters an unwelcome and unexpected gift of typhoid. Their acute illnesses can be cured with chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin). After this modern treatment so few become carriers, they create a negligible problem for the future...