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...heard that cry in Leipzig last week expressed in just those words. The janitor of an apartment house which stood alone in a street of utter wreckage buttonholed me, shook his fist in my face and cried: 'You must tell your people how we've been lied to and betrayed! Every day we see it more and more! Every day we have more and more proof of how those men have ruined us! And they're still fighting, letting us be killed-they'd drag our whole country down to death with them if they could...
...gaunt Parisian, gone five years, hurried unannounced to his home. He was too spent to climb the five flights to his door, so the janitor went up to tell his wife the good news. When she came down, her husband lay dead of a heart attack...
...most schools, bland, rawboned Frank P. Nagel, 53, would be known as the janitor. But in Hadley Technical High School, St. Louis, by virtue of a resolution of the school board, he has been known as a custodian. Last week the citizens of St. Louis made Janitor Nagel another kind of custodian: he was elected a member of the city board of education...
Custodian Nagel, who because of regulations must resign his $159.50 a month janitor's job, considers himself as well qualified for his new post as the next man-perhaps a little better, "because of my long service in the school system. I've worked for the board for 28 years and I know how they do things" (see above). He gets no salary as a board member, so will have to look for a job. Custodian Nagel boasts a diploma, acquired in 1937, from a Chicago school of massage and physiotherapy. In his spare time he has worked...
This havoc was created not by a demolition squad, but by three nine-year-old boys. On a Sunday afternoon they broke into Brooklyn's Public School 173 by cutting a window screen, rampaged until suppertime. When the janitor arrived next morning, he found windows shattered, pictures torn, walls smeared, light bulbs smashed, desks and chairs ripped apart, a grand piano stripped of keys and strings, the remnants of two bonfires, the leavings of crackers and jam in a domestic science kitchen, a total of 21 classrooms in shambles. The damage-which added...