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...There should always be a struggle to come up with something new," said Frank. "You cannot repeat the old formulas. Perhaps I might take up still photography again, but only if I had something new to say. Eugene Smith, after all he went through, now takes pictures from his loft in New York City. They're really terrible pictures, you know. A shadow of his past. But he's fighting. He was almost killed in World War II, he fights alcoholism, and he pushes on even at the risk of falling flat on his face. There is struggle there. Walker...
...into a nearby leather goods shop and began to rough up the owner. When his 17-year-old girl friend appeared, one Angel reportedly said: "We're here for a funeral, but this looks like a party." Then eight of the group allegedly dragged the girl to a loft above the shop and tortured and raped her repeatedly for six hysterical hours. The Angels were arrested and booked on charges of rape, sodomy, assault, criminal trespass and unlawful imprisonment...
...about 1 a. m. many of the women had loft the building and gone home, leaving about three dozen to stay the night...
Those entrepreneurs who have resorted to pigeon post have had mixed results. The mating season has just begun, and a pigeon named Concorde, assigned to fly 170 miles with microfilmed letters tied to one leg. was found dallying in a loft only a mile from its starting point. But another bird carrying a microfilmed letter between two brothers in London and Portsmouth arrived in only 2? hours...
...Crimson's slow start in almost every game this fall. "I noticed against W.P.I. that our halfbacks play very defensively in the opening ten minutes," he said. "They lay back to see if the opposition is going to try to work the ball through them or try to loft a pass over their heads. I've told them to be more aggressive...