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...conversion of San Nicandro began almost 20 years ago with dark-eyed, sallow Donato Manduzio. Invalided by shrapnel in World War I, Donato had lain for years on a miserable straw mattress in an attic room. At first he wept bitterly that he could not join in the daily life of his native San Nicandro Garganico (pop. 20,000). But gradually, the sounds of women singing as they carried water in copper vessels on their heads, the cries of the black-hatted mule-drivers, the hammering of cobblers in the tiny, dark shops (Donate had been a cobbler himself) lost...
Bouncing Baby. In Brooklyn, Marie-lena Lucas, 2, leaned too far from an attic window, fell 30 feet to a porch roof, 15 feet farther to the ground, got away with minor bumps and scratches...
...went home and lay down on his bed. He ate his meager supper silently, then went back upstairs. In the darkness of that night, when the others in the house were fast asleep, Erich climbed the ladder to the attic. In the silence and alone, he hanged himself...
...curate of La Poterie, near Lamballe, was also accused of complicity in the plot, but was left in provisional liberty. A dozen machine guns were found in his house. When newsmen badgered him for an interview, he pinned a statement to his door: "The police have found in my attic the following: two 35-ton tanks, two batteries of 75-millimeter howitzers ... 35 engines of a type not yet invented, half an atomic bomb...
...Craigies. She had a lover whom she had been waiting for all her life, and her husband had been getting letters from an illegitimate daughter. When Oliver Wendell Holmes discovered the undercurrents in the mansion, he exclaimed with relish, "What a household! Mrs. Craigie hiding her letters in the attic and Mr. Craigie hiding his letters in the cellar!" When Longfellow married, his father-in-law bought the house for the couple, and soon their home became a great social and literary center. Among the visitors were Emerson, Louis Phillippe, Don Pedro II of Brazil, Hawthorne, and Dickens...