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...Cambridge fire chief, four engines, at least eight University policemen, and 12 firemen descended on Mather Hall of Leverett House at 10.10 p.m. Saturday night to extinguish a small blaze caused by a burning sofa...
According to fireman John Lally, the conflagration was caused by a cigar butt left on the sofa. David N. Owen '61, a neighbor of the damaged suite, said he had smelled smoke for half an hour before turning in the alarm, but his roommates convinced him "it was only stale pretzels." Occupants of the I-43 suite were absent at the time...
...awful headache," four-year-old Barbara Mathis wailed to her mother. "I don't want any breakfast." All day, Barbara rested on the living-room sofa. That night, when her temperature rose to 102, her parents took Barbara to a doctor, who looked at the child's inflamed throat, gave her a shot of penicillin. It was no help. Next day, Mrs. Lorraine Mathis returned from market in Forked River, N.J., and found Barbara unconscious, in convulsions, her temperature raging above 110°. Last week, in an ambulance bound for a Manhattan hospital, Barbara Mathis died...
...dogmatism . . . which corroded all ethical values." Scorned-as the author clearly felt that he and an entire nation had been scorned-his unnamed heroine retreats to the rough-hewn comradeship of the stage. After a triumphant performance in a theater crowded with her enemies, she collapses on her sofa in melodramatic tears, unable to solve the curt, inexorable questions that Djilas himself could not really answer: "Why? How? Whither...
Dead End Kid. This impression is reinforced by the physical picture-his lumbering bonhomie, his carefully cultivated 5 o'clock shadow, his habit of lying disheveled on floor or sofa, an attitude he liked to assume for photographers. "He belched in public," notes Rovere rather primly and adds: "[He had] the perverse appeal of the bum, the mucker, the Dead End kid, the James Jones-Nelson Algren-Jack Kerouac hero...