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...after day Gino and his companions stayed down in the damp, hot (104°) shaft, 1,600 feet below the green vineyards of Cabernardi. They bedded down in mule stalls, took walks along dark tunnels lit only by their battery-fed cap lamps, and relaxed with Communist papers sent down from the shaft head. On the surface, their families camped forlornly near -barbed-wire enclosures redolent with the rotten-egg smell of sulphur furnaces. A constant stream of baskets containing fish, cheese, soup and meat passed through the gate to be sent below. With the baskets went an occasional note...
...Class of 27, plus families, spent the damp day at the Essex County Club and Singing Beach, lolling and lobstering, while the men of '52 and their dates watched the harbor drift by from the decks of the Boston Belle...
After four days of inactivity, caused by rain-swept fields at Springfield and Amherst, the varsity prepared for its first home game with a light, intra-squad workout. The damp weather and forced idleness seemed to have slightly dulled the team's hitting. Stuffy McInnis' boys were, for the most part, popping pitches into the air; only first baseman Russ Johnson and catcher Charlie Walsh consistently smashed line drives...
Last week, after a sell-out first performance, the splash almost swamped Director Rosenstock with criticism. None of the critics doused Wozzeck itself; their damp words were reserved for City Opera's new English-language production...
...sued for the privilege of using the house, too. In the first place, he said, he heard that Eleanor had barricaded the front door with his $75,000 Rembrandt, had flung a Franz Hals portrait and a Turner landscape into a damp basement liquor closet, along with his valuable collection of antique silver by Paul Storr, silversmith to George III. Things like these needed a man's protection. Rose said he would also like to pick up some of his winter coats and suits, and furthermore he needed the house in order to entertain properly. His Ziegfeld Theater apartment...