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...doesn't take long for him to bounce back, though. After he has eased his cough by sucking on an orange, splashed around for 15 minutes in the shower, and stretched out on the nearest bench of table, he is already looking forward to next week...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 10/8/1947 | See Source »

Actually, the nearest many swimming candidates get to the water in preseason practice is the shower room, although some have been known to take a dip now and then on the sly. But this is unofficial and recreational--if pushing a kickboard for forty laps is your conception of a good time...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

...Richmond, Flying Instructor Brock Minor scattered 50 lbs. of dry ice into a cumulus cloud at 8,400 feet, brought the city its first shower in two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Rain Makers | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Fort Worth, the Ed Ritchey Flying Service, supplied by the Parker-Browne Co., a big dry-ice producer, took up rain making as a business, brought one shower in its first two tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Rain Makers | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Helen Hayes, whose playwright husband, Charles MacArthur, slipped in the shower last year and cracked a rib, slipped in the same shower, grabbed at a porcelain grip, broke it, sliced her right forearm ten stitches worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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