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Reid's own getaway was a masterpiece of timing, meticulous preparation and sheer nerve. In & out of windows, over roofs, dashing for cover when sentries made their turns, and so out through a flue, Reid and three companions reached the outer wall and let themselves down on a rope of sheets. Using forged identity cards made by prisoner experts, and equipped with civilian clothes, a memorized map and German learned at Colditz, Reid and one of his pals made good progress through Germany...
...total of 45 students were in the Infirmary yesterday morning, the she said. The number is usually about 30. Cambridge City Hospital reported a "heavy increase" in the number of flue cases in the city...
False alarms in Claverly and Sever Halls yesterday were both traced to the same cause--an unheated flue in the Claverly incinerator...
According to Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, a new janitor in Claverly Hall neglected to heat up the flue well enough to insure the removal of the smoke. As a result the smoke backed up not only into Claverly itself, but also into the ventilating system of the network of steam tunnels which underlies all University buildings...
Parity last week was so high that only seven commodities were priced above it: cotton, rice, flue-cured tobacco, wool, beef cattle, lambs and veal calves...