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...believe that there was some foundation to the story. . . . You know, it is not so very long ago that a certain very high-placed American woman made a trip to Australia in a bomber that it is reported had been remodeled so as to permit the installation of a shower bath...
...heard about a young Polish girl who had refused to undress for a shower. The degenerate, sadistic Mussfelt who ran the crematorium ordered her shoved into the furnace alive. Her hair burned quick and bright. Then she crisped up like bacon on an over-hot skillet...
...Chambers. We got out to inspect the bathhouses. Said Kudriavtsev without emotion: "They came here first for a shower. Then the Germans said: 'Now you have had your wash. Go in there.' " He led us into one of four gas chambers. It was a solid grey concrete room, about 20 ft. square and 7 ft. high. A single large steel door sealed the entrance hermetically. There were three apertures, two for the pipes which brought in the gas, one, a thick glass peephole, protected by steel netting. It took about seven minutes for this "Zyklon B" to kill the occupants...
Through the many University athletic buildings every day pass thousands of men who are conditioning themselves in the accelerated physical program here at Harvard. After a cross country workout, or a grimy football drill, or calisthenics class, it is taken for granted that there will be a refreshing shower and a clean towel waiting at the various athletic buildings. Few men realize that every towel used in the athletic program is laundered by the University right here at Dillon Field House...
Last week the long-smoldering quarrel between Kuomintang and Communist Governments blew up in a shower of sparks. From the Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Chou En-lai came an ugly cry: "There is danger of civil war." In Chungking, Information Minister Liang Han-chao snapped back: "There is no danger of civil...