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Acid Test. In Coral Gables, Fla., after it ate through gasoline tins, dissolved the plaster in the ceiling and began dripping on a sergeant's desk, police quickly dumped 55 gallons of confiscated moonshine stored in their attic...
...First Ladies' Day at the Smithsonian Institution, the nation's attic. With sartorial deference to mistresses of the White House, past and present, Dwight Eisenhower donned a white dinner jacket to help Mamie open the institution's new display of old finery worn by the nation's First Ladies...
Joseph A. Page '55 won both the $100 Bowdoin Prizes for Undergraduates in the Classics this year for his translations into Attic Greek and Latin. In the competition for the graduate prizes no award was made...
When Historian Louis Booker Wright took over as director of Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library in July 1948, he found the entrance to the reading room barred by a red silken rope and two guards. He promptly ordered the rope sent to the attic, cut the guard force by a third, put the remaining guards to work as janitors. Said Wright: "I came here to make an institution come alive, not to preside over a mausoleum...
...seems that Actress Baxter, a blues belter who is apt to wear as many as several sequins at once, has gone from bed to worse: murder. The hero tries to save her soul, but he keeps hankering after her body. At one point, they stash away in an attic. As she rubs against him, he hesitates, looking less like St. Anthony before the Devil than an aging shortstop in confrontation with an alluring calorie, and is lost when the sound track weighs in with the kind of unhealthy music that passes censorship but might better be evaluated by a Wassermann...