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...massive furnaces were banked, the brilliant flashes of light that mark the pouring of molten steel disappeared from the night sky over Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Gary, and many another steel town. In the Pittsburgh borough of Homestead, hard by the home of giant U.S. Steel Corp., only a few lonely figures moved along the strangely deserted streets. In Manhattan, businesslike industry and union negotiators stuffed papers into briefcases and headed for home...
Died. Adrian Rollini, 51, xylophone player in the Adrian Rollini Trio, jazz-age member of the famed California Ramblers (other Ramblers: Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Ted Weems); of pneumonia and complications; in Homestead...
TOWN HALL TONIGHT, by Harlowe Randall Hoyt (292 pp.; Prentice-Hall; $7.50), is a somewhat casual and bluntly nostalgic backward look at the small-town theater of the '80s and '905, when Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Old Homestead were sure to extract their quota of tears. The illustrations are of appropriate corniness...
Recipe. In Providence, police looked for the vandals who broke into the Homestead Baking Co., dumped 1,500 Ibs. of sugar and 1,500 Ibs. of flour on the floor, mixed the mess carefully with 50 gallons of salad oil and a case and a half of soft drinks...
...nothing. Next night somebody tried to pry open the trunk of Ellen's car, parked in the estate's driveway. Now infuriated to the vaporization point, Mrs. Stevenson fired off to local newspapers a press release that conjured up a vision of a pioneer woman patroling her homestead veranda with a shootin' iron. Her unsentimental sentiments: "Effective immediately, any person found trespassing on the premises after dark will be given one warning to halt ... If this is not heeded, he will be shot without further notice...