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Descendants of the curious first Mr. Halloran, builder of this desirable piece of real estate, now inhabited his world, avoiding as much as possible the outside world of other mortals. Then one day one of their number perceived, in an apparition of the first Mr. Halloran, that the end of the outside world was not far off. Humanity, as an experiment, had failed, and the gods who created it had decided that all on earth save the twelve denizens of the Halloran mansion should perish in a general cataclysm...
...Halloran, who had lately rendered fatherless her grandchild Fancy through an expedient shove of her hapless son down a long stairway ("His funeral went off very well."), consolidated her grasp of the affairs of the household...
Aunt Fanny, medium of the news from the late Mr. Halloran, busily went about ordering first-aid kits and jars of olives ("Just a few small luxuries.") against the day that Sears, Roebuck would probably not be open for business...
THOMAS F. HALLORAN Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Mainland Director of Industrial Development Commonwealth of Puerto Rico New York City...
...also predicted a rise in the number of non-flying candidates for the ROTC program. "We always need technically trained officers and will probably begin accepting a larger number in two or three years," Halloran stated...