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Aptitude Test. In Chicago, heavyhanded Burglar Walter Pernal climbed an outside apartment-house stairway in broad daylight, smashed a window with such a resounding crash that an upstairs tenant phoned police, drank so much liquor in the apartment that he was helpless to resist arrest...
High up on the fourth floor of Thayer Hall, two adjoining suites of rooms house two freshmen apiece. The suites are identical in very way: both have one bedroom and one living room, both are the same size, both are the same distance from the stairway and from the communal bathroom. Since rooms in the Yard are supposedly priced according to their desirability, one might assume that the rents for these two suites are equal. But the freshmen living in one are paying $185 per term, while the residents of the other pay only...
...Heap O' Livin'. In Hartford, Conn., Salesman John Holmes, advertising in the Courant, offered to sell ". . . 40 acres of Pin Oaks and Black snakes. Old-world charm includes sagging floors, tortuous stairway and draughty fireplaces . . . Dandy opportunity to toughen up wife and kiddies ..." reported several nibbles the first...
...Shahn combined social and individual commentary in such fine works as the war-haunted Red Stairway and the wryly idyllic Spring (opposite). At peace with the world in recent years, he has been overtaken in his later work by his weakness for arty picture-making of an allegorical sort...
...level, reached by a winding stairway in the tower, is divided into the Nest, workroom for artists; the tower room, furnished chiefly with a moth-eaten Ibis; and the Great Hall. This last is the most impressive, reserved for Lampy's state occasions. At first glance, it seems extremely large because of a foreshortened perspective and triangular shape. The Hall's main features include a large, carved mantelpiece of Elizabethan vintage, serpentine electric light brackets, and suits of Japanese armor. A solid oak table stands in the center, and is deeply carved with the initials of early members...