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...apparently, did all but one of the 285 guests in the brown brick, 15-story, "fireproof" hotel. At 3:32, a switchboard light winked; a soldier in 510 wanted ice and ginger ale. Clerk Rowan sent Bellhop Bill Mobley up with it, and told the night engineer to go along for a routine building check. They had to wait in the hall about three minutes for the guest to finish his bath. They spent another three minutes in his room. When they opened the door again, the hall was ringed with fire...
...years she wrote and illustrated all but a few of the 27 now-famed Tales. Beatrix Potter was deeply aware, says Author Lane, "of the realities of nature . . . and the laws of nature . . . are nowhere softened or sentimentalized in any of her stories"-though they are often made humorous. Ginger, the cat who runs the grocery store in The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, will sell his groceries to any animals except mice. " 'I cannot bear,' said he, 'to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels...
Sarah Churchill, green-eyed, ginger-haired actress-daughter of Winston and ex-wife of Comedian Vic Oliver, was having a complicated love life before cameras in Italy. Engaged for two pictures, one British, one Italian, she fell to work on both, shuttled back and forth between her roles: 1) an American composer's wife, 2) a Sicilian baron's wife, in love with another guy. "Two films at once," cried haggard Sarah, running into a little syntaccident, "are almost too much...
...Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals thought otherwise. In an ultimatum to Hobbies, officers of the Royal Society deplored the sport. Said an R.S.P.C.A. inspector with finality: "Anyone who knows about boys will know that ... the mice will be prodded unmercifully to ginger them up." Britons tensed themselves for a finish fight. Then the iron curtain clanked down. Hobbies censored all news of mouseboat racing, refused to divulge even the inventor's name...
Meanwhile, in Bath, a National Wheel Racing Mouse Club was organized. Founder Laurie Jackson had already enrolled 48 members, all adults who presumably could be trusted not to ginger up their mice. For a race track they had chartered the "Royal Oak," a hall attached to a Bath pub. In Mouse Monthly, chief spokesman for the N.W.R.M.C., Britons learned more about mouse wheel racing: the track is twelve feet long and has six runways. The mice, one to a runway, propel diminutive wheels, by trotting on a two-inch treadpath. Entry fee for each race: two shillings sixpence. All mice...