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Line Play. In Washington, Mrs. Anne McGinnis fell from a fourth-floor fire escape, landed on a clothesline which flipped her into a second-floor apartment, only slightly injured...
When he was 20, Kahlil Gibran returned to Boston. His paintings won him a reputation. His prose poems, written in Arabic and translated by himself, brought him readers who became disciples. By 1910 Gibran was settled in a large fourth-floor studio in Manhattan. Short but powerful, he wore robes, painted allegorical pictures, strongly influenced by William Blake's, in which vague, shapely nudes emerged from misty backgrounds. He spoke in solemnly portentous phrases: "We have eternity. . . ." "The soul is mightier than space...." "Silence is one of the mysteries of love. . . ." He was also a practical Lebanese patriot...
...oboist's technique begins long before he puts his instrument to his mouth. For Tabuteau, it begins in his medieval-looking fourth-floor workshop. There he whittles to perfection the paper-thin, cigaret-shaped reeds on whose shaping and adjustment oboe tone heavily depends. A flawed reed can make even the best playing sound like a tin horn. Tabuteau spends hours every day scraping away with a razorlike knife...
Filed in his fourth-floor office in the CBS building in Los Angeles are the names of 3,500 faithful Wiley worshipers, all good members of the Protective League. When a new sponsor approaches him with a product, Wiley turns it over to 50 of his housewives for testing. They have rejected about half of the products thus offered, have never given him a bum steer. Asked to spiel for a quick-drying floor wax, he tried it on his own floors, reported candidly over the air next day: "This is a good wax, and it's as good...
...loudspeaker in a darkened fourth-floor window was discovered to be the source of the propaganda. Rumored to be operated by Walter W. Webster '39, last evening was its second night of operation. Apparently it will continue tonight, in its self-appointed role of Station WLOW, as ardent campaigner for James Michael Curley, the American Legion, and the Cambridge Council. Thus far, nothing but enthusiasm has greeted the voice of reaction. Tune in at 7:30 o'clock...