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Most astonishing of all to cynical New Yorkers was the catalogue of crimes and disasters that never happened. Only two citizens lost their lives as a result of the blackout: one fell down a stairway and struck his head; another died of a heart attack after climbing ten flights of stairs. There were one-fourth as many arrests as on a normal night. Despite darkened department stores, few shoplifters were active. "We can't do much business in the dark, but neither can the shoplifter," said Macy...
Across the hall in 601, Martin B. Vidgoff '66, and George Neville '66 dash through the flaming hallway, choking and blinded by black smoke, toward the south stairway. Their roommates David J. Losk '66 and Robert M. Coleman '66, try unsuccessfully to escape through the seventh-floor fire exits, but are also forced to exit through their blazing living room...
...first place, there were too many strings. Richard Wagner composed this charming piece for his wife and played it from the stairway on the morning of her birthday. He scored it for what even the program notes call a small orchestra: flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, trumpet, 2 horns, and strings. If you can imagine the entire string section of the BSO standing on Mrs. Wagner's steps, you will get some idea of how Tuesday's performance sounded. No one loves the depth and richness of a large subdued string section better than I do; but the winds sounded...
...factory presents a procession of profiles as the viewer walks around it. By externalizing what most architects bury within a building-staircases, heating pipes and air ducts-the architect has both opened the interior to freer use and the exterior to a greater play of light. A vast entrance stairway openly sweeps up to a mezzanine in baroque splendor, inviting visitors from a nearby parkway...
Andersen's sprint victory in the indoor Heps was the first step on his stairway to fame. A nobody in Ithaca, Wayne came on in the IC4A championships in New York the following week to take second place behind Fordham's invincible Sam Perry. Andersen hasn't slowed down since and he's not likely to tomorrow...