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...Into the usually accurate medical department of TIME [June 10] crept two errors...
After that, numbly or with blind desperation, they tried to stay alive. The lights went out on many floors after a while, but scores of people crept out into the hot, dark, smoke-filled corridors hunting for fire escapes. Gasping dozens suffocated, lay still after going a few feet. A few people shut themselves into bathrooms. Most stayed at their windows, screaming, waving sheets, tossing down lamps and bric-a-brac to attract attention...
...Senate had debated labor legislation for two weeks, trying to do something with the House's Case bill, aimed at curbing the economic powers of labor. The debate had grown violent; into dignified speeches crept such words as "skunk." Labor's overheated friend, Claude Pepper, and a little coterie of other friends waged an undeclared filibuster against laws which would take away any of labor's rights. Then the Senators walked over to the House to hear what Harry Truman...
Chronic work-shys at once cleared out of the capital. Even when some crept back, the average cop hardly broke a leg to nab a candidate. Most Uruguayans had forgotten all about the scheme when last week Montevideo's alert El Diario turned up the fact that their hobo college, with a staff of 46, had shrunk to six scholars. Hurriedly the police began beating the boondocks for prospective pupils...
...onetime pulp-fictionist whose earlier bedroom gambol, Kitty, was turned into a bland costume piece by Hollywood, wrote her first novel (30 pages) at seven. Its conclusion: "He gazed into her eyes and said, 'Will you marry me?' Only the stars heard the answer as they crept under the bushes." No such childish restraint mars Duchess Hotspur...