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...cannot foresee the day when he'll be doing play-by-play sportcasts, "until they invent teletype in Braille," but he frankly hopes that his program will interest the networks. His chief worry: that a sudden shower at a game will ruin the perforated dots of his notes, leave him speechless at broadcast time...
...average miner lives in a company-owned, one-story, unpainted wooden shack more than 30 years old. Of 1,154 company houses surveyed, only one in ten had a bathroom with tub or shower; 75% had outdoor privies (few meeting minimum sanitary standards); less than half had piped-in water; only a third were properly screened. Well over half the towns had no sewage system or garbage collection; housewives often dumped garbage near the house or in foul streams running through the town (see cut). Though miners lack bathrooms at home, less than half the mines have showers for washing...
...only priority messages (requests and instructions for Red Cross workers, embalmers, blood donors, etc.) were handled. Later, he sent and received "personal welfare" transmissions (inquiries about individuals). When the second explosion came at 1:11 a.m. Thursday, Standley flung himself to the floor and went on transmitting in a shower of glass. After 250-odd messages, with the emergency over, dog-tired Standley went off the air and home...
...Hollywood, a manufacturer decided to publicize a system of perfuming shower baths, got Starlet Joan Barton-recently voted among the 13 best-dressed U.S. women-to take off her clothes and stand in an aromatic spray...
...After a shower and rubdown, a family dinner at 7, the President usually goes back to his upstairs study with an armful of papers, intelligence reports, news summaries. He relaxes by listening to the radio, or taking a turn at the piano. No movie fan, he avoids the White House showings, except for an occasional newsreel of himself. Most evenings he is in bed by 11 o'clock...