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Last week, the deal was made, for cash. For $17 million of his own and his family's money, Landlord Kennedy got the world's largest privately owned office building (two weeks ago, Kennedy bought a 13-story office building from the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in Albany for a rumored $1,800,000 cash...
Ceiling Zero. In Muskegon, Mich., the local OPA, with no jurisdiction over commercial buildings, started searching for new offices when its landlord proposed to boost the rent from $175 to $600 a month...
...Dirt. In The Bronx, Aaron Hulah, 65. sued his landlord for $35 damages, testified that he had been barred from taking a weekly bath in the house tub, was thus forced to take 52 round-trip subway rides (a total distance of 1,500 miles) to public baths on the lower East Side for a total expense of 70? a week.Ruled Judge Michael Delagi: "Hulah gets the moolah...
...taproom of Ye Old Queen Anne's Castle Inn, one of several "oldest hostelries" in the county, Landlord Alfred Sykes drew pint after pint for inquisitive reporters from London, told them of awesome doings. "Last night the church clock turned two hours slow, which never happened before. . . . Then there was old Chipping's rabbits. One of them-ain't this witchcraft?-he found setting on eggs in his chicken coop. . . . And Mrs. Warren's books. There's a respectable widow woman for you, and a friend o' mine. All her books changed jackets...
...night skeptical Landlord Bob Reynolds, of the rival Dog and Gun Inn, who had scoffed at reports of the witch's pranks, found a boulder the size of a beer barrel outside his pub door...