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...students in the Gothic-style men's dormitory at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio awoke to hoarse shouts of "Fire!" By then, the 120-year-old building was doomed. Smoke billowed through corridors, and flames (which had started in a defective flue) were rolling up the old-fashioned stair well in the center of the building. As men jumped from their beds and opened doors that were already warm, the fire tore through the roof, rushed crackling along the eaves to the wings. Some students dashed out before it was too late. Some jumped from windows, others tried...
With Schedule I in hand, a tenant began by classifying his apartment. A three-room fifth-floor apartment in a fairly decent neighborhood would be rated as 3-a. With louder street noises, darker corridors and no stair carpeting, it dropped into 3-b. He then classified his rooms: "habitable" (nine square meters or more), "secondary" (at least seven square meters), and "annexes" (baths, toilets, closets). By multiplying this space by coefficients ranging from .6 to 1.0, depending on the classification of his rooms, he arrived at his total area of "useful floor space...
...Russian Jewish songwriter named Irving Berlin and made a go of it, knows that those who marry out of their faith are not always so lucky. In Lace Curtain, her second novel, Veronica goes through a young girl's social hell before she finally marries Protestant Jamie Stair. Then she discovers that not even love and children are sufficient armor against relatives and religious differences. At the end, Veronica waits for her husband to return from the war, prays that somehow they can make their marriage last...
...walking up the stair...
...signs remain of the old days of Castle Corners. The grandfather clock in the main hall still reminds one that the President's office next door was once a drawing room. The white-painted rooms are broad and still luxurious, and the landings of the stair case command a fine view of the Yard that used to be a henyard. But Fay House is a house with a present as well as a past. The sign on the third floor has a commanding message for today's Radcliffe girl. In soliciting funds for the College's 70th anniversary, it says...