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Clean-up Squad. About 800 of the 1,300 Stock Exchange employees walked out. Their places were taken by brokers and exchange members. Robert A. Magowan and Norman Smith, partners in Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, helped run messages on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Vice President John Haskell headed a detail that cleaned up the exchange at night. Curb President Truslow and Chairman Edward C. Werle padded around as night watchmen. In a, day or so, the exchanges were operating almost normally, though the makeshift staffs sweated to keep up with the heavy trading...
...Emergency Defense Service Committee will be composed of the following men: Harry Newman, Jr. '42. Thomas P. Barnefield '42, and E. Bernard Fleischaker '42, of Brooks House; Charles S. Bridge '42, and Peter Magowan '42, of the Student Council; and leaders of the cooperating organizations...
Headed by Peter Magowan, with the assistance of John G. Penson and William H. Young, Jr., all of the Class of '42, a corps of Junior Ushers will assist at the Baccalaureate Service, the Senior Spread, and Class...
...Engineer Magowan, making his last run, with a second-rate engine in the teeth of a blizzard, swore he would get to division point on time; he drove the train recklessly through the storm. The conductor was worried. At Avondalc they had to stop to pick up a single passenger- Everett Jason, a long-repressed model husband who was methodically running away from his wife. Martin Knox, criminal lawyer, was bringing a secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail...
True to the conductor's premonition, Magowan's mad driving was too much for the old engine: a side rod let go, flailed the engineer to death. During the long wait for the relief engine Jason and Lena decided to make a run for it to the nearest town. But a railroad detective chased them, shot Lena. Jason's dream of freedom collapsed; he knew he would go home to his wife. Knox's star witness was gone but he got his old mistress back again. The remains of old Magowan, covered with a blanket, were...