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Louis L. Miller '56 of Adams B-46 noticed the fire when he saw smoke coming up through his floorboards. He mentioned it to the janitor, who, upon sober reflection, decided to call the fire department. The fire was cornered in a wooden beam between the two floors and while several firemen cut holes in the ceiling of the bottom room, others pried up the floor of the top room. They met in the middle...
...whose ripsnorting old (78) Editor Fred Sullens incites readers against "mongrelization" under such front-page scare-lines as "YOU ARE FOR US OR AGAINST US." The best that Editor Sullens could say of the Negro was in a sentimental story on the funeral of an 83-year-old onetime janitor at the University of Mississippi; the paper started a scholarship fund in his name, and sang his praises as "a good Negro who knew his place...
February. An Eliot House janitor will win the $64,000 Question. His topic will be "The Spirit of Ancient Athens." A Cambridge commission for urban renewal will propose a modernization of Harvard's campus. President Pusey will counter by saying, "Harvard has no campus." Fire Chief Kilfoyle will drive the hook and ladder to Miami for repairs...
...call me Pocho," Perón told the girls, and he came often to watch the basketball, skating and sailboat racing, or to award wallets containing 500-peso notes to graduates of the classes in dancing, gymnastics and drama. On one such occasion, he met green-eyed Nelly, a janitor's daughter. Perón, who also called himself the "Immortal Widower," gave Nelly jewels from his late wife Eva's collection, as well as poodles, perfume and a nice little concrete house in the suburbs for her folks...
...Silver Fount. He has been fascinated by politics as long as he can remember. At the age of ten, he was attending political speeches. Once, he cut school and bribed a janitor with $2.50 to let him into an all-female meeting in Pasadena, where William Jennings Bryan was pouring out his oratorical silver. Before he cast his first vote. Goodie had heard Bryan a dozen times-as well as Woodrow Wilson, Hiram Johnson, William Howard Taft, Champ Clark and Theodore Roosevelt. Much of Goodie's political technique derives from his hooky-playing days with the great spellbinders. Says...