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...stepped Striker Paul Gruber, a hefty (6 ft. 2 in., 240 Ib.) farmer from Utzenstorf. He carried a murderous loft. Stecken, a whippy hickory shaft with a heavy cylindrical head. Eyeing the small (diameter 2½ in.) hard-rubber disk perched on an elaborate tee made of two upcurving steel rails,* Gruber took aim, lowered his stick twice, then drove with all his might. The Hornuss buzzed off into...
...latter-day switch, as adapted from Josephine Tey's 1949 novel on the famous 18th century case of a domestic servant named Elizabeth Canning of Aldermanbury, England, who falsely accused an old woman of keeping her prisoner in a loft and soliciting her to lead an immoral life...
...fans write glowing letters to him from all over the world. One fan who did more than write: Phyllis Pinkerton, 26, who came from Wisconsin to study with Lennie. When she inherited $10,000 recently, she invested it in Tristano, who rented a loft over an old garage, soundproofed the walls, installed recording equipment and a piano. There Tristano and members of his sextet teach some 35 pupils, will soon begin recording on their own label...
...query of the announcing at the beginning of display 11: "What will they think of next?" At this point in the evening's entertainment. Leoni is standing on his head atop a 60-foot pole, which thereupon breaks in half. In the neighboring reaches of the Boston Garden loft, Mr. Morituri is holding a perforated steel sphere in his teeth while Mrs. Morituri cycles around the inside. Below, fearless janitors are carrying off card-tables that the Realles Trio have just been spinning on their feet...
...Family. General Controls was founded in an Oakland, Calif, loft in 1931 by William A. Ray, then 26, and his brother Charles. Fresh out of Stanford University's engineering school, and with $10,000 in capital borrowed from their father, the brothers designed an industrial fuel control unit, did badly. They did better with a thermostat control for home furnaces, but not till they invented a simplified home-heater control did sales start soaring. By 1940, sales were up to $612,848. Since then more than $2,000,000 in stock has been, issued, to finance expansion of their...