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Behind locked metal gates on the sixth level of Widener smolders the "Inferno," the University collection of erotica...
...rates a spot on the secluded shelves along with Frank Harris and Fanny Hill because of the value of a particular edition of "The Divine Comedy." Editions that are rather valuable, but not quite valuable enough to ocupy space in the Houghton Rare Book Library, are locked in the "Inferno" to asure protection. Several beautifully-bound volumes of "The Arabian Nights," of Browning, and of Balzac are kept in the Cage for this reason...
...volumes on the shelves of the "Inferno," or Cage, as most Library officials choose to call it, are by no means limited to work of an erotic nature. Mingled with studies on white slavery and perversion, one finds Dante's "Divine Comedy," Browning's "Complete Poems," and the papers of the Office of Civil Defense...
Although erotica burns brightest in the "Inferno," Robert H. Haynes, Assistant Librarian of the Colege Library, hastens to point out that the Cage was not solely created to harbor such literature...
...swirling fog. Thick ice glazed the mountain's sheer headwall. From Pinkham Notch, down in the valley, a line of black dots inched upward along two rows of red flags. The dots were ski fans, out to see the world's most dangerous ski race, "the American Inferno." The course runs in a four-mile drop from the summit over the 1,000-ft. headwall, through Tuckerman's Ravine and down a narrow wooded trail to Pinkham Notch, over 4,250 ft. below...