Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Jump!" Then the people who desperately wanted to live began to die. While firemen yelled "Don't jump!" a *He sold it three years later, stayed on after that as a non-paying guest. woman appeared at a seventh-floor window, threw out her small son, her smaller daughter, then jumped herself. Another woman leaped feet first (as they all did), hit a fireman who was carrying a woman down a ladder and swept them with her to the street. The craze spread, and body after body hurtled down, hitting with dull, leaden sounds. As they fell, slowly...
Hencken will leave Cambridge shortly for England, where he will be guest leeturer at the University of London before proceeding to Tangiers...
Kate Smith (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS), gives Baron Munchausen (Jack Pearl) an airing as guest star...
...have represented on their faculties such outstanding men of letters as Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and W. H. Auden, while Harvard undergraduates must get along on a starvation diet of composition courses and depend for the inspiration and advice such men could offer on the Morris Gray Fund guest lectures. Although it would be possible for Harvard to obtain one or more men of the calibre of Auden or Tate, the University's blindness to the invaluable services which such men could render has made Harvard not a center of creative effort in America, but a whistle stop...