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Vying with Jester, Pegasus and Mickey Sullivan for local literary honors, a group of harried and hurried newshawks nightly tramp the interesting by-paths of University life gleaning the facts and features that lie in finished form on your doorstep at six o'clock every morning...
...restaurants. At home he kept a hand pickled in glycerin and carbolic acid, studied it for weeks until putrefaction forced him to bury it in the garden to the horror of his Negro gardener. Once a taxi driver, aware of his interest in cadavers, appeared on his doorstep with a dismembered human leg that an unidentified medical student had left in his taxi...
...billowing frocks she graces the lawn, and crowds gather about her doorstep at dusk. Who is she? How do you get to know her? What did she come here for, anyway? How does she spend her time, where does she eat, what does she do for recreation and exercise...
...publisher in England. He ran the office all through the Battle of Britain—the toughest six months of news coverage any TIME man has ever known. He still can't figure out why he wasn't killed when a loaded Junkers bomber crashed almost on his doorstep; the terrific explosion blew his housekeeper from one room right through the door into another, bashed in the whole house. After that Graebner slept in the office-beside his desk on nights when the bombings were light-in the basement shelter when they were...
...said grateful Jesse Jones. "The baby that was left on our doorstep had not been cleaned or washed...