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Trial by Fire. It was 5:30 p.m. on a mid-November day. Hudson sat quietly in his cell, eating off a tray. Other prisoners were lining up in the corridor outside, almost ready for the march to the mess hall. Suddenly, through the iron bars of Hudson's door came a soaking spray of lacquer thinner, followed by a lighted match. The cell exploded in flame, searing through 25 coats of paint on the wall, melting an overhead electric light-and sending Jim Hudson, afire, shrieking in agony, to rage at the bars that held...
...London's University College Hospital to see his wife Clarissa, who was suffering with a troublesome wisdom tooth. As he sat by the bedside, Eden suddenly began to shiver. His temperature soared to 105½°. Doctors put him to bed on the spot, just across the corridor from his wife, and announced he had suffered "a feverish chill." Three days later, Eden was back at his desk, but some colleagues claim he has never been the same since...
...dash and bravura air that raises them far above the cliche level of most Royal Academy official portraits. Dublin-born Francis Bacon with his eerie studies has introduced into portraiture the element of overpowering psychological shock that leaves an echo in the mind like a scream in an empty corridor, and has made Bacon one of the best and most individual artists in Britain today...
...rebels retaliated by hanging Soviet soldiers. Roaming bands of rebels outside Budapest drove back Soviet units, set up roadblocks and cleared a corridor toward Vienna. The tide of battle was turning towards the provinces, and the faint voice of "freedom stations" was heard calling for a general strike throughout the country. An independent Hungarian government was reported to have been set up at Gyor (pop. 66,000), an industrial town 66 miles west of Budapest. At Pecs (pop. 87,000) in the south one rebel radio station was heard broadcasting military orders, indicating that a sizable part of the Hungarian...
Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell, expressed one typical fear when he said, "Anything that can be thrown the length of a corridor, is. They are ideal for field hockey and football...