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...headmaster, he has come to know thousands of boys, and the dying town academy he took over in 1902 has gradually grown into one of the top U.S. prep schools. There, the Head has remained the only thing that never changed. He still keeps his open office in the hallway of the main building, still dashes about in his buggy, still governs his school (475 students) as if it had never grown at all. Forever open to new ideas, Frank Boyden still clings affectionately to old ones. "If they must be destroyed," says he, "let us try to destroy them...
Miss Inselbuch was the first to realize the danger. Her sleep was broken sometime after 3 a.m., and when she looked up from her bed, she noticed a tall, thin figure standing in the doorway, silhouetted by a hallway light...
That was one thing Harvey E. Clark Jr. didn't know. Clark, a Negro, graduate (A.B.) of Fisk University and a World War II sergeant, was sick of living in a tiny apartment on Chicago's South Side, with his two kids sleeping in the windowless hallway. He rented an apartment in Cicero.* But when he tried to move his family in last month, two Cicero cops refused to let the Clarks unload their furniture because they had no "permit." Beefy Police Chief Erwin Konovsky arrived, ordered the Clarks to leave town. The real-estate agent who rented...
Their prowling waked Duval at 4 a.m., in Leverett G-14. He followed them over to H-entry and found a large camera lying in the hallway. The thieves presumably left it there while they worked through other rooms...
...year the building was opened, a Boston paper stated that "complete destruction of the building by fire is practically impossible," since each hallway could be divided into three fireproof compartments by closing iron fire doors...