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...Eliot House library will resemble the library in Dunster House in decorations, except that the shelves will be lower, and will not have to be reached by ladder...
Over the wall of the old Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet one night last week clambered three long-term prisoners. They had been detailed to early morning duty in the bakery, had overpowered a guard, made a ladder of oven poles, a cable of wire and tin cans. Guards, who had lain in wait for the break for three weeks, flashed floodlights, opened fire with machine guns as the last man swung down the cable. Paralyzed with fear, he hung for a moment in the glare before being swept off, slug-riddled. His two companions were also killed. When...
Perhaps the greatest Hearst reporter was Arthur Brisbane. He has climbed up his ladder-like column of daily aphorisms to Journalism's highest wage: $250,000 yearly. He pontificates. He used to tell people not to sell the country short, and will again. As from Olympus he answered in his column, Today, Editrix Patterson's question about interviewing nudes...
...Flames shot up the elevator shaft, mushroomed out through the four stories of the old triangular building. Some of the 35 occupants fought their way out through halls and stairways; others made for the fire escapes. One linotype operator, Joseph Douglass, did not wait for firemen to raise a ladder, jumped from the third floor, died of his injuries. Two hundred firemen, working with ice-sheathed apparatus in a high wind, prevented the fire from spreading beyond the busy corner of Hanover & Lombard Streets. But the Post building was completely wrecked...
...LADDER OF GOLD-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little, Brown...