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...CLIMB UP TO HELL (212 pp.)-Jack Olsen-Harper...
...morning last week, Window Washer Frank Olsen, 49, was strapped in his belt and working on one of the old-fashioned windows of Radio City Music Hall when he heard "a whining sound like nothing I ever heard before." He looked over his shoulder at the 42-story Equitable Life Assurance Building on Sixth Avenue, completed last September. "I saw the scaffold falling," he said later. "The steel cables were draped all over it. It came down like a bullet and landed with a sound like an explosion...
...Frank Olsen unhooked his belt, crawled inside, and hurried across the street. In the battered cage lay Nick Szczerba, 45, Fladgit Grover Zunk, 39, and Ulysses Johnson, 30-all dead. The fourth, Edmund Botelko, 37, was still moaning, but he died on the way to the hospital...
Other members are Diane K. McGuire, a landscape architect; Maria Teresa M. Moevs, a classical archaeologist wife of Robert Moevs, assistant professor of Music; Tillie Olsen, a creative writer who won the 1961 O. Henry Award for the best American short story published in the previous year; and Marianna Pineda, a prize-winning sculptor...
...Boils, Panpendarism, Sausage Making in the Home. Collopy, dying from a dosage of one of The Brother's patent medicines, embarks on the inevitable pilgramage to Rome. His grotesquely comic death there after a burlesque papal audience is the kind of thing that even the late Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson could hardly have coped with...