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Aged 53 (last spring), Dr. Empringham rented a $5,000-per-year apartment in Manhattan. Said his janitor last week: "There was a constant stream of women and girls running into the building after him. Lots of them were beauties, too. But he was never there. It got to be a real nuisance, I can tell you." Upon further Health Department warning, he closed his Emanuel Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: A Doctor's Evolution | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Buffalo, Janitor John H. Olst, 22, died in his bath tub last week from a combination of escaping gas and drowning. A few days before he had been rescued from going over Niagara Falls with a capsized, boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Vagabond had it on his calendar to say something today about the fact that spring is only ten days off now, but the poor arithmetic of a janitor who thought it had already come and took the day off yesterday, along with the steam in the radiator, changed his mind on that score. It took every one of the hitherto purely ornamental logs in his fire-place to thaw out his typewriter enough to use, so before it solidifies again he hastens to add that any such comments are hereby postponed to a later and he hopes not too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...University will incorporate Claverly, Randolph, and possibly Russell, into one House. What disposition will be made of Benjamin Hyte's tailoring shop has not yet been announced. Bob Lampoon, for so many years the power-behind-the-throne and genuis of all Lampoon wit will be accepted tentatively as janitor of the new eating plant. His continuance in this position is conditional on good behavior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old, Lampoon Building Will Feed Residents of Gold Coast House | 2/9/1929 | See Source »

...from Harvard Square to the Back Bay station. With things in such a sad state, it is evident that the time has come to shut up shop. So today the shutters go up on the Vagabond's windows, the clock is stopped and the typewriter given to the janitor' for his Christmas present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/21/1928 | See Source »

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