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Four Men at a Booth. After that, for a while, the gorillas lay low. They were on the prowl one hot afternoon last week when Willie Lurye went into the ground-floor lobby of a Chinatown loft to make a phone call. Traffic was heavy in the building and nobody noticed anything wrong until the man at the cigar stand saw Willie come out of the booth, walk with painful erectness toward the door, call out "Tony" in a strangled voice. Tony was Tony Milletti, another organizer...
...soon transferred to sea duty on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Four years aboard "The Big E," he saw it through almost every major Pacific naval campaign from Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal to the Gilberts and Marshalls. He was paid off in 1946 as the ship's First Lieutenant. Today, his ground-floor office at the northeast corner of Weld is still littered with books and documents about the war, which he is using in preparation of a pictures-and-text book commemorating the exploits and crew of the fabulous carrier...
...grew up, is still the city he knows best. He comes from an old-fashioned Italian family, poor to begin with, but proud of each other and extremely close-knit. His parents, who had come from Isola delle Femmine, an islet off the coast of Sicily, had a ground-floor flat on Taylor Street, on the slope of Russian Hill. Joe was the eighth of nine children...
Both brains and legwork behind SDA are Crimson: Don Willner '47 serves as national chairman and Charles Sellers '45 organizes in the field. Today's ground-floor nucleus will make or break its great chance to capture mass support tomorrow by the means it devises to implement its ideals. From the current program embracing labor rights, federal aid to education, civil liberties, and universal military training two sorts of approach can develop: the agitation tactic which alienates the men it should most woo simply because of what it is (making smalltime political capital from colossal issues) or the militant...
Insane Orderliness. The most arresting figure in this tranquil scene was young Lord Sebastian Flyte. Hero Ryder, who had ground-floor rooms, met Sebastian somewhat unpropitiously one night. Amid the hubbub of strayed revellers he heard one voice say distinctly: "D'you know I feel most unaccountably unwell. I must leave you a minute." "And there appeared at my window," says Ryder, who narrates the novel in the first person, "the face I knew to be Sebastian's-but not as I had formerly seen it, alive and alight with gaiety; he looked at me for a moment...