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Thus in case incendiary bombs fell on Harvard Hall during a lecture trapping students under fallen being and plaster and starting from the warden's first job would be to inform the report center. If the damage were not sertena, the College would cope with it alone. If outside help were needed, the head Harvard warden would notify the city authorities...
...herself. Kambers himself decided on the Harvard angle and approached Coles H. Phinizy '42, who had succeeded Bowie, with the proposition that the 'Poon invite the second Jean Harlow to its spring dance. She wouldn't come, Kambers promised, but she might do some stunt like sending a plaster cast of her leg as a substitute. Phinizy refused his offer until he became exasperated, and then, in a moment of weakness, which he has since regretted, he accepted. Kambers immediately sent off a wire, and Woodworth, far from sending a plaster cast stand-in, headed Cambridgeward...
...Where they had stood there was a crater, with two mounds of debris on each side of it. ... Ford climbed on to the debris ... he found that it was made up of an extraordinary texture of brick and plaster rubble . . . pieces of crockery, often unbroken, all made into a homogeneous, tight-pressed pudding...
Headache. In Philadelphia, Detective Clifford Del Rossi looked over the headache machine which he found smoking in the home of Mrs. Pearl Haines, Negro. Inside the plaster-sheathed contraption, for which Mrs. Haines paid $5, he found: an alarm clock, a thermometer, an electric motor operating a glass-encased eggbeater...
...into the pot with Jimmy Stewart, and the product is not gold but unpalatable musical hash. Stewart remains the easy-going, honest boy from the sticks who migrates to the big city. The heavy is his grump uncle who wants Irish Mary Gordon's property. Although he has to plaster his uncle with a rotten tomato and give away a thousand dollars over the radio to do it, Stewart finally effects the obvious Anschluss. Ma gets the house and Jimmy gets Paulette...