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...party bosses had it out. Queens Leader James A. Roe, Brooklyn's Kenneth Sutherland and Staten Island's Jeremiah A. Sullivan insisted on nominating Impellitteri. De Sapio and Congressman Charles A. Buckley, representing Flynn, refused to go along with them, then carried the fight into a hotel corridor, where reporters overheard the end. Yelled Leader Buckley, "You are wrecking the Democratic Party!" Snapped Leader Roe, "You might as well go out on 42nd Street. We're going to stop you sabotaging the party...
...stop at the front entrance of the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Ga. He jumped out, locked the car and gave the keys to a guard. Then he signed his name in the visitors' book (under "purpose of visit." he wrote "educational") and rushed down a prison corridor to a classroom in which some 35 inmates were waiting...
Breakfast at 8:30. Instead of a single central corridor for patients and visitors, corpses and dinner wagons, there are three corridors. The central one is used by doctors, nurses and patients. Balconies on each side of the building serve as corridors for visitors, who thus cannot get in the way or see what they should not see. At intervals along the work corridor are stations for nurses, who serve only four rooms each, thus saving countless steps and precious time. Surgeon Garfield has arranged the four operating rooms in a cloverleaf pattern around a central instrument room. The hospital...
...snuggled Cynthia, three days old. When she had finished cooing at the baby, Mrs. Harris pushed the drawer back, and Cynthia was again in the semiprivate nursery which she shared with Mrs. Sigmund's baby. When Mrs. Harris closed the drawer, a light flashed on in the central corridor, showing the nurse on duty that Cynthia was once again in her charge...
...with expressions of pleased surprise. No performer likes listeners to walk out early, but Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski once set something of a Carnegie Hall record for displeasure. Spotting a woman leaving while he was playing, he left the piano in midphrase, dashed through the wings and into the corridor after her, crying, "You have spoiled my concert...