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...45th floor of Cincinnati's 48-story Carew Tower. The elevator operator noticed nothing about Jones except that he was the only Negro in the car, that he was hatless and wore a tan gabardine topcoat. Jones got off on 45, walked up the winding stairway to the observation tower atop the building. The tower door was locked, but he found a window just above the 47th floor and jimmied it open. He climbed out, stepped gingerly along a three-foot ledge to a parapet at the corner of the building, took off his topcoat, folded it neatly...
...Stairway on A. At the Met, she is a cheerful favorite among singers as well as stagehands. Says Jennie, the Met's tantrum-tested wardrobe boss: "She's regular." She is also a hard worker and a serious student. She has to learn her roles letter-perfect, and for a good reason: "I'm as blind as a bat." Without her glasses, she can hardly see either the prompter or the conductor. Conductors like her because she is quick, clever and agreeable, "no prima donna in temperament...
...This belligerently unconventional actress set an English hotel on its ear by performing on its stairway...
...dangers of a great city, like those of the jungle, often leave little time for thought. When smoke boiled into her 1½-room Brooklyn flat one morning last week, Mrs. Irma Randall did not hesitate. A kerosene stove had tipped over downstairs and flame was roaring up the stairway in solid sheets. After one look, she ran to the window...
...have a one-shot chance tonight to see one of the best movie fantasies ever made. "Stairway to Heaven" is about a wartime British flyer who is shuttled about a bit by heavenly bureaucracy; it combines quietly plausible acting with some spectacularly implausible technicolor photography. Kim Hunter is very pretty, and Stairway's heavenly stairway is one of a spate of remarkable sets. It is no movie to miss