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Precisely at 5:30 a.m., slight, blond Ed Easton, 44, W-T & S rewrite man, finished pounding out a picture caption, shut his desk in the third-floor city room and turned in his copy. To Executive Editor
Accomplice. In Norwalk, Conn., a dental patient, making for the nearest exit, went down the dentist's third-floor fire escape, ran into a cop who escorted him back upstairs to complete his appointment...
...sandstone house on Manhattan's upper East Side, the door of a third-floor bedroom opened softly at 7:30 a.m. one day last week. Following a routine of many years' standing, a handsome, grey-haired man, clad in a maroon and navy dressing gown, reached into the hall to pick up the newspaper. Then Arthur Hays Sulzberger hopped back into bed to read his New York Times...
...inscription chosen by Publisher Sulzberger: "Every day is a fresh beginning . . . Every morn is the world made new." The house that Ochs built and Sulzberger expanded is softly lighted and handsomely equipped, from the 88 presses and 106 linotypes to the pink-walled ladies' washrooms. In the soundproofed third-floor city room no one ever runs and few raise their voices; on the tenth-floor the editorial writers deliberate in monastery-like offices...
Students and strikers massed at Socialist headquarters, chanted "Ab -di -ca -tion!" and "Leopold to the gallows!" Paul-Henri Spaak doffed the morning coat of a continental diplomat for the shirtsleeves of pavement politics. He appeared at a third-floor window and cried: "We ask the gendarmes to retire. This is a legal demonstration. Gendarmes have no business here." Coatless and bareheaded, Spaak led a parade of his belligerent followers through the city. The crowd noticed a repairman on top of a tram whose guide rope had been torn down by demonstrators. "Come down off that tram...