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...back from Kirkland Avenue and shielded by shrubbery, from prying eyes, Peabody House today is tottering between salvation and decay. The building is now used daily by the Graduate School of Education and the ASTP, but spiders still spin undisturbed in the attic...
...missing record of the song was found by Jack Caidin, head of Collectors Record Shop, in a New Jersey attic. It was a privately made 12-in. waxing, signed as a souvenir for one of Lillian's long-forgotten admirers, and had never been reprinted. Caidin had been looking for it for a long time. Last week his business with copies of the disc told him he had made no mistake...
...aimed a three-gun battery at every Government department within range: 1) extended for two years the Dies investigation of un-American activities; 2) authorized the House Appropriations Committee to pry into every budgetary fact; 3) set up a new committee to investigate any Federal bureau from cellar to attic, on a citizen's complaint...
...fetishistic crutches featured in so many Dali paintings may be traced to a crutch which he found in the attic of a tower from which he had planned to push a girl. Says Dali: "It was the first time in my life that I saw a crutch. . . . The superb crutch! Already it appeared to me as the object possessing the height of authority and solemnity. [It] communicated to me an assurance, an arrogance even, which I had never been capable of until then...
...some $81 billions of consumer goods and services, far more than in 1929, but consumption of these goods ran far ahead of actual output due to a huge drain on inventories. When the President, touring the Washington shopping district last fall, exhorted shopkeepers to hide their "luxuries" in the attic, he was simply responding to the statistical fact that in October and November retail sales were practically at an alltime peak. And, at Christmas, buying was bigger and more lavish than at any time in the country's history...