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...center. Her boudoir had frescoed walls, and its stucco floor was gaily decorated with dolphins and octopuses. Like other parts of Nestor's palace, the Queen's apartments had terra-cotta pipes to carry off the smoke of the heating system. A small room, presumably a bathroom, had an underground drain. There was no bathtub, but since a terra-cotta tub was found in another part of the palace, Queen Eurydice may have had one too. Or perhaps her slave girls bathed her by pouring water over her. Vessels designed for this bathing system (still common in eastern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...copy of From Here to Eternity and a good look at Jones's sumptuous house on the western edge of town at the end of Beech Street. The house is complete with hi-fi set, high-powered hunting rifles, 3,500 books, pushbutton kitchen and Hollywood-style bathroom (with a French-style bidet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Housemother Knows Best | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Last year, aged 25, Angelina was taken to the arthritis clinic at Manhattan's superbly equipped Hospital for Special Surgery. There she scored near zero on the ADL (activities of daily living) test: she could not walk, dress or feed herself, comb her hair, or go to the bathroom alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Those Aching Joints | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...collection that includes a magnificent, 150-year-old Venetian collar of diamonds and emeralds, besides more ordinary pieces. At night Callas' favorite rite is to soak leisurely in the bath, steep herself in buckets of cologne, and then (after a careful weigh-in on the bathroom scale) to go to bed "feeling absolutely luscious." Perfumed, glowing and gowned in slinky silk, she lies awake late into the night-studying scores while husband

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Prima Donna | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Sunday), and she married "strong, assured, sophisticated" Lieut, (j.g.) Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., with whom she lived the life of a Navy wife from Peking to Pensacola. Alas, came the terrible time when Lieut. Spencer, who had begun to hit the bottle with naval thoroughness, locked her in the bathroom. Despite family pleas-"the Montague women do not get divorced"-Wallis felt it was time to set a precedent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bessiewallis | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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