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Though she does not claim the ability make chalk drawings come to life or to build a stairway to the stars, she admits that "children sometimes identify me with Mary Poppins. Of course," she adds, "I have a china hen on my hall table that lays candies instead of eggs...

Author: By Maxine S. Paisner, | Title: It' Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! | 4/15/1965 | See Source »

...office-apartment combine should prove the ultimate panacea for the commuter. But it does have one drawback-if he takes an elevator to work, how will he get any exercise? Oh well, even a 100-story building must have a stairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Above the Hurly-Burly | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...uses of oil, but when she learns of the industrialists' evil lust for power, and is told how oil can give them that power, she crushes them, madly. She tries them, in absentia, condemns them, and executes them by luring all the advocates of evil down an endless stairway...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: The Madwoman of Chaillot | 2/10/1965 | See Source »

...ruptured sprinkler pipe set fire alarms blaring throughout Thayer Hall at 1 a.m. Sunday morning. The break, over a stairway in the south entry, lowered the water pressure until the alarms sounded automatically. The pressure then built up again and the alarms stopped, and started, and stopped, and started...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sprinkler Pops, Deluges Thayer | 12/14/1964 | See Source »

...Through These Portals Pass the MOST" is, as it certainly should be, the motto painted above the stairway that leads down from Broadway into Birdland. Out on the street, the club calls itself "the JAZZ Corner of the WORLD," and, in fact, Birdland has long been everything to modern jazz that Colonial Williamsburg is to the D.A.R.-the cradle, the shrine, the place where things are perfect. But now, regrettably, the sign must come down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The Audience Is Shrinking | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

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