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Breaking Points. In Chicago, Peter Musick admitted smashing eight plate-glass windows because "it gave me a sense of fulfillment." In New Albany, Ind., when Tenant Frank Collins refused to pay his rent on the ground that it was above the OPA ceiling, Landlord William Deatrick chopped down the stairway entrance to Collins' apartment...
...hour and a half later the course, which included Tallulah's rumbling rendition of Juliet's balcony scene on the hotel stairway, was over and memories were considerably freshened. One waiter muttered in stark wonder: "Nothing like this has ever happened here before...
...whisked the U.S. envoy off with a car of ministers on a tour of one of her Social Aid Foundation's new hospitals. The elevators were not yet ready, so she marched the party up & down the seven floors of the building. As they puffed up one stairway, Finance Minister Ramon Cereijo wheezed: "Where's the psychotherapy ward? I'm ready to go in." All agreed that Evita, talking warmly and frankly with "Amiga Miller" about how much she wanted the U.S. and Argentina to be friends and work together, put on a terrific performance...
...week last night when a first-floor paint closet burst into flames. The blaze lasted only for a short time. The first alarm was sounded by Herbert W. Berger '53 who smelled smoke as he entered the building at 9 p.m. last night. He ran down the rear stairway to the basement door and saw flames inside the closet...
Incidentally, a fire extinguisher on the second floor had been intentionally overturned and its contents sprayed over a rear stairway. Although this incident occurred late Friday night, fire-fighters on Saturday would have found the extinguisher's contents still unreplenished. Robert W. Oliver '53 Bernard F. A. Law '53 George B. Stebbins, Jr. '53 (Claverly residents...