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...Students--Students are asked to check their rooms for valuables and personal belongings before leaving. Also mailbox and room keys, and all linen and blankets must be turned into the dormitory Janitor...
Heaving at the handle of an ashcan, his aide Gaylord, a Negro janitor, asks: "What do you know of the black man's burden?" Moonbloom responds sourly, as he picks up the other handle: "I share...
Into Training. The son of a janitor in Tiflis, Armenia, Petrosyan played his first game at twelve. He was a master at 19, an international grand master at 23. But in the Soviet Union, grand masters are so ho-hum that it took him eleven years and uncountable victories to earn the right to challenge Botvinnik, who won the world championship in 1948 and, except for a lapse of two years, has defended it successfully ever since. Like a football quarterback, Petrosyan scouted his opponent-poring over charts of Botvinnik's games. Like a boxer, he went into training...
Died. Leon George Roth, 67, part-time janitor for Cincinnati's Whittier elementary school and the U.S. Army private who on Nov.11, 1918 carried the surrender message that ended World War I; of a stroke; in Springfield, Ohio. As Motorcycle Dispatch Carrier Roth stood shivering in the cold near the railroad car where German and Allied officials had been secretly negotiating the armistice, a captain approached at 5:15 a.m. with a metal message tube to be taken 25 miles to U.S. General John Pershing's headquarters. "Ride like hell," said the officer. "This is one you must...
...more mature than it was a few decades ago. When 150-year-old Colby College in little (pop. 18,000) Waterville, Me., celebrated its centennial, it staged a pageant of eleven scenes, including "The Baptist Ideal," "The Spirit of 1861." and "Sam, a Freed Slave," a tribute to the janitor. In 1963, the idea that came instantly to mind for the sesquicentennial was to put on an exhibition that would demonstrate the role of Maine in the history...