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...Wild West. In Detroit, while washing windows in a skyscraper, Moreel Bellfleur came upon a raccoon on a sixth-floor ledge...
People outside the office saw little of him. Every morning, a bespectacled chauffeur-bodyguard knocked on the sixth-floor door of his apartment at 420 West 119th Street (near Columbia University), escorted him down to a Chrysler sedan and drove him to the office. In the evening the chauffeur took him home again in the same solicitous fashion...
Mistake. In Brooklyn, John Landrigan set out to commit suicide by hanging himself outside a sixth-floor window, was killed when the rope broke...
...Virginia Beach, Va. was too cool and blustery for the Prime Minister. A few times, William Lyon Mackenzie King bundled himself up and went out for a short walk along the shore or tackled the piney woods bordering the golf course. But mostly he stayed close to his sixth-floor suite in the Cavalier Hotel, in constant touch by telephone with Ottawa...
Nowadays Rouault's paintings bring up to $12,500 apiece in Paris. Dealers prize them more & more-and have begun to question the eternal values of some of Paris' most publicized avant garde painters (to whom they now scornfully refer as "decorators"). Rouault has a sixth-floor Paris apartment in an unartistic quarter. He walks up; he hates elevators, telephones and other mechanical devices. He also has a country house in Normandy which the Germans raided in 1940, destroying the library and ripping up some of his canvases for blackout shades. Rouault's family includes six devoted...