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...first floor there will be space provided for a storage and preparation room for the material of the large lecture room. A new fireproof stairway will also be provided at this end of the building...
...present A entry, the stairway and rooms 15, 25, 34, and 35 will be walled off, and will not be materially changed next year. From this wall out to the end of the wing the present rooms will be removed and completely changed. The wreckers will start tomorrow, and it will be three weeks before the reconstruction work on the house will begin...
...Then he dropped the paper at the fighter's feet. What happened then is told by him in a legal deposition: "Schmeling. his face working in anger, yelled at the top of his voice and then . . . grabbed the seat of my trousers and violently rushed me to the stairway, shaking me in all directions as he did so. ... [There he] violently and outrageously battered me and lifted me bodily and hurled me down the 25 marble steps...
Suddenly, a shot was fired in the vicinity of the Capitol steps. There was hoarse clamor out there, contrasting rudely with the goodfellow hilarity in the House. Down the broad stone stairway leading from the Capitol gates into the street the advance-guard of a crowd of 500 Communist demonstrators was rushing pellmell. Their jeers rose into the mild, noon air. Led by a giant Negro, they had marched up the steps bearing banners legended: DOWN WITH THE ADMINISTRATION! DOWN WITH DEPORTATION ! WE DEMAND . . . JUSTICE FOR THE FOREIGN BORN...
Like all businessmen, prizefighters must move toward success up a stairway of "connections," working up from one friend who can be useful to another who can be more useful. Inevitably this involves to some extent the faculty of forgetting those who have been useful in the past, but sometimes a fighter's past catches up with him. Last week in a Manhattan courtroom James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired heavyweight champion of the world, defended himself against a suit brought by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, sports promoter, for approximately $500.000 back pay. Day by day the testimony showed the intricate...