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...fire department and the Buildings and Grounds condemned Big Tree in the spring of 1951. A small wastepaper basket blaze that started during a traditional "after-the-show" party touched off an investigation. The blaze was quickly extinguished, but Buildings and Grounds termed the building's contents "highly inflammable" and recommended that the H.D.C. construct sets somewhere else...
...care how they worked; I just liked to watch them." Then he was drafted into the Army where, Peepers-fashion, he spent four months misclassified as a foot soldier before the Army gave up and discharged him as physically unfit. Cox drifted aimlessly for the next six years, studying basket-weaving, working on farms, in factories and for a silversmith...
...biggest cut was the entire last half of the work (barring a few excerpts), which deals with the Eastern Empire centered in Constantinople. Except for a final chapter, the story now closes where Gibbon once intended to end it, with the fall of the Western Empire. Into the basket, too, went nearly all of Gibbon's footnotes, by actual count almost a quarter of the original history. Wherever Editor Saunders had to snip the narrative line, he spliced it together with summaries. His estimate of the final collaboration: "96% Gibbon and 4% Saunders...
...House Superintendent's office at 5:30 Monday but found it returned to its original place a little after 11 p.m. Attached to it was the following note: "Sorry I stole your bike. I broke a pin in the foot pedal. There is, I think, enough money in the basket to cover the damage...
Twenty-five cents was found in the basket, exactly five cents more than the cost of repairs...