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Money gushed from unexpected springs. The bantam valley town of Jessup (pop. 6,000) sent the janitor of its four-room schoolhouse into Scranton with $19,000 dug out of attic trunks and sugar bowls. A team of 50 determined housewives left their breakfast dishes in the sink, stuck their feet in front doors until they had raised $300,000. Local 18 of the United Auto Workers (C.I.O.), mostly unemployed, sold $87,000 worth of bonds...
...their questions with some remark upon the weather or how the corn was shaping up-Jess heard it-the faint kind of leathery sigh the organ made when the foot first touched the bellows." Jess knew that his daughter Mattie was settling down to a musical session in the attic. Just as she launched into The Old Musician and His Harp, Jess cried aloud: "Friends, let us lift our hearts to God in prayer...
...London doctors last month warned industrial scientists that they were playing with fire; OSRD's Vannevar Bush also warned a House committee that amateur attic experiments with radioactive energy might "sterilize, perhaps, all the passers...
Like a housewife with too many heirlooms, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art has always needed a bigger attic. Last week the museum announced details of its $10 million postwar plan to increase its 7.21 acres of floor space by about 30% (TIME, Jan. 29). If the customers can take it, they will be able to see the $1 billion conglomeration of 5,000 years of art-everything from South American bone nose flutes to priceless Raphaels and Rembrandts...
...first Germans to reach Prague carried a warrant for Gedye's arrest on a charge of "treason" (for helping Austrian refugees to flee). For ten days he hid in the attic of the British Legation until he could escape across the Polish border. Once away, Gedye was sent to Moscow for the New York Times, did not like it there, was glad when the chance came to help his native England fight for its own freedom -and Austria...