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...three of them to the bank, said the bandit, and hold the boy and Mrs. Kuhel hostage while the father fetched out $75,000 in greenbacks. As his father, stalling for time, pointed out flaws in the arrangement, Bobby had asked the thug if he might go to the bathroom. Too busy arguing with the father to care about the boy, Wally waved him away. That was when Bobby got the gun. When Bobby came downstairs a moment later, Wally marched all three of them out to the family car, ordered Kuhel Sr. to drive, and settled himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Accident | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...back. The book has two title pages, two opening chapters. In fact, to let the secret out, it is two stories. It tells the same incident-a marital quarrel-from the point of view of the husband as well as the wife.* Like "his" and "hers" towels in the bathroom, the notion is apt to be a little obvious and excessively cute. But if the reader can keep from getting dizzy turning the book over, he will still have fun, because behind Author "Virginia Rowans" hides the beard of Edward Everett Tanner III, who, under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: His & Hers | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...Only two passions dominate him: laziness and cigarette smoking. He lies on his bed by the hour looking at the wall. Indeed, the only decision Novelist Dutourd puts to his hero in the whole course of this Novel is whether or not to get up and go to the bathroom. Fernand doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hour of the Hoo-Ha's | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...Bathroom Phone. Last week Harry Truman walked from his office to the barbershop of Frank Spina, who served as guidon for Captain Harry of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, in World War I. Truman was especially careful about his haircut; he had an appointment in Chicago next week, and he wanted to look his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Man of Spirit | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...spiritual director of the nuns, Canon Peart decides, under the prodding of the local legal shark, to sue for libel and defamation of character - he needs the money to pay for that dry bathroom which was necessary for the dignity of the parish. Suing the Sassenach and his newspaper seems the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Farce of the Year | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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