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Franz Biberkopf presses his hands to the sides of his head, as if he were about to pulverize a rancid cantaloupe, and screams. He staggers wildly about the apartment-house courtyard, its high walls allowing the merest tantalizing glimpse of sky. This is Germany, 1927. As the nation spun from the humiliation of Versailles to economic and social anarchy, and then into the toxic delirium of the Third Reich, so Franz spins. A laborer and part-time pimp who has just been released from prison after serving four years for beating a girlfriend to death, Franz has few resources...
...team of two fire trucks rapidly extinguished the 6:10 p.m. blaze in the fourth floor suite of the dorm's B-entry. The flames in Canady B-44--which could be seen from the dorm's courtyard--came from a couch apparently ignited by fallen lamp or a faulty electrical circuit...
...five residents were not home during the fire, but several returned soon after to join the crowd of about 100 in the courtyard...
...fire trucks, walked to the courtyard and said. 'Look up in your window,'", window,'" said Geordie Wilson '86, who lives in the suite...
...most of the students had been roused from their beds appearing in the courtyard in dress varying from underwear to tuxedos. Residents were hustled into the Eliot House dining room, where they waited thirty minutes while Harvard Police checked the building for bombs...