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...janitor at the Audubon, Iowa, high school, A.E. ("Brick") Kness, used to watch mice with a hunter's eye. For a while he even allowed them to nibble contentedly in the lunchroom just so he could study their weaknesses. Brick Kness was not going to resort to easy or familiar solutions. This was the Roaring Twenties. When Americans did things right in those days, they invented something new to do it with...
Polk County District Judge Theodore H. Miller had a small problem. He was accidentally locked outside his chambers in Des Moines, Iowa. While a defendant and his attorney patiently waited, Miller summoned the janitor, who tried every trick he knew to unlock the door: a passkey, a credit card, even a small drill. No luck...
...hush falls over the crowd--your janitor, jingling a keyring in his annual show of authority, emerges from the leafy green of Harvard yard and mounts the steps. You scan the competition, looking for an angle that will bring you through the door before your still-anonymous cohabitants...
...says, with a grin gleaming from under a straggly mustache. Carlos Lopez, another Puerto Rican, has just graduated rom Cardinal Hayes High School, where he was president of the computer club and editor of the school paper. He has just been admitted to M.I.T. His father is a janitor in a New York hospital...
...theorize that the janitor got scared that he would be blamed and so he quickly replaced it all," Robin said, adding, "where else would we have gotten all this...