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...fire inexplicably burst forth in the women's dressmaking department on the second floor of Les Nouvelles Galeries. Into swift action went the bearded personnel manager. With smoke and flames spurting from Les Nouvelles Galeries and the whole second floor blazing, rotund Louis Frichet rushed panting up the stair case to the roof, carrying an armful of blankets...
...submitted must be 8x10 in. or larger, black and white mounted prints. 6--All pictures entered in the contest will be returned to contestant if return address and postage is inclosed. 7--To be eligible, entries must be received by February 7, 1938 and should be sent to Gobin Stair, Carpenter Hall, Hanover, New Hampshire...
...Sharp's School for Maturates contains no customary scholastic rules. But no student may be under 70. Classes will be held from 1130 p. m. to 4. There will be no entrance examinations, tuition, compulsory attendance, class or racial distinctions. Classrooms are on the ground-floor to obviate stair-climbing for the incapacitated. Upstairs are living quarters for those unable to go back & forth. Food costs will be shared. Dr. Sharp's widowed sister, Mrs. Jean Torson, will act as housemother. What courses will evolve remains largely a matter of what subjects interest the oldsters most...
...bath, a glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives who had crossed the U. S. and the Atlantic for no other purpose were glad to perch on a stair rail or the edge of a chromium table to peek at the new models...
...building almost as imposing as the telephone skyscraper of Madrid. This they seized and held for seven hours. Hero of the revolt then became Barcelona's Police Chief Rodriguez Sola, who personally led a frontal attack on the building, captured the first floor, methodically started mopping up from stair to stair...