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Little Logan, "a gorilla for screaming," was converted in a bathroom by his six-year-old sister when he was four. (Embellishing this miracle, his father wrote a tract credited with converting thousands of wild Indians.) At seven, after a hard-fought spiritual struggle, he attained Grace. "Since I attained the state of Sanctification," Author Smith testifies, "I have never felt the slightest twinge of conscience, never experienced for one second the sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sanctification | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Donald Coster read the story of his true identity in the morning papers. As two U. S. marshals drove up to his house, he gulped a drink of whiskey, locked himself in the bathroom, poked a revolver in his ear and pulled the trigger. The marshals found him in the bathtub with his feet sticking out. His wife, for whom he had named his yacht, was pacing the floor downstairs and wailing: "My God, Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: My God, Daddy! | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...suite which Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger used to occupy. Queen Elizabeth will have the larger blue suite on the southeast corner which, before the executive wing was built, used to be the U. S. President's study. Each suite has one large and one small bedroom, plus a bathroom. Forty ladies & gentlemen accompanying Their Majesties (except a few personal attendants) will be bedded elsewhere about town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Continental Solidarity | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...plan [see cut] would give a bathroom common to both bedrooms and a closet for each. Also permitting the bedrooms to obtain westerly view. The cook would find both his kitchen and bedroom much more convenient and comfortable in my plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Nugent is a stand-out in a pretty good cast. Perey Kilbridge is excellent as Pop Clifford, who travels around the country "straightening out" his son-in-laws. Quill, the meek little man who used to think that men who wore top hats never had to go to the bathroom, is overplayed by Hume Cronyn. Barbara Robbins as Evelyn Quill does nothing to redeem a role which is entirely out of key. Harold Grau, Matt Briggs, Naomi Rae, and Otto Hulett are all good, and Donald Oenslager's hotel room set is particularly effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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