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Students and strikers massed at Socialist headquarters, chanted "Ab -di -ca -tion!" and "Leopold to the gallows!" Paul-Henri Spaak doffed the morning coat of a continental diplomat for the shirtsleeves of pavement politics. He appeared at a third-floor window and cried: "We ask the gendarmes to retire. This is a legal demonstration. Gendarmes have no business here." Coatless and bareheaded, Spaak led a parade of his belligerent followers through the city. The crowd noticed a repairman on top of a tram whose guide rope had been torn down by demonstrators. "Come down off that tram...
...Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). J. B. Priestley's Angel Pavement...
...gave the appearance of being just under seven feet tall and who was said to be the mayor, and another in a camel's-hair coat who said he was head of Civilian Defense--were also told by the photographers to bend over and look at the pavement. When that was done, one of the men with instruments was asked to test the shoes of the man in the camel's-hair coat for radioactivity. The latter obliged by sitting on the edge of his car seat, and crossing his legs out into the street. The small man with...
...Ibis sinks beneath the pavement, I expect to hear from the murky depths the chant, 'Lampy is out tonight, Lampy...
...pajamas and red dressing gown, he groped his way up the stairs to the valet's own room. A moment later a waiter looked up to see a red-clad figure sitting on the window sill. Then all that was left of Lucky Beatty lay crumpled on the pavement below...