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According to press accounts, the man fell down an airshaft toward the rear of the 17-story building at 4:45 p.m. while hundreds of people in the adjacent interior courtyard looked...
institutions generally single out a few stocks-including IBM, Xerox, Polaroid and ITT-for the big play. "This is an airshaft market," complains Shearson Hammill Vice President Lee Silberman. "A hundred or so blue chips move up and down while other stocks languish...
...Communist lover. Bigger's explanation to himself is that the murder was an accident, would not have happened if she had not passed out on rum. Shortly before he is caught in a rooftop chase he murders his girl Bessie with a brick, throws her down an airshaft...
...family until around midnight. Early next morning, looking slimmer and paler than she had for some months, Elizabeth Smith took the family dog for a customary walk. Later that Saturday the Smith neighborhood was in an uproar of police car sirens, screeching housewives, giggling boys and girls. In the airshaft of the tenement next door to the Smiths', a newborn baby boy had been found dead, apparently dropped from the roof. Easter Sunday, detectives asked childish Elizabeth Smith if the dead child were hers. "Yes." said...
...bathroom. There, alone and without sound, crouching in a tormented daze, she bore her son. She thought, she swore in court last week, that he was born dead. After a rest the girl gathered her infant in her arms, mounted to the tenement roof. She walked to the neighboring airshaft, planning, she swore, to toss self and child over the edge. She fainted: the child fell alone...