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...luxurious third-floor apartment of Havana's rococo presidential palace, bachelor Ramón Grau San Martin had finished his morning cup of sweet black coffee. On the stroke of 9 he walked down the private stairway to his office below. He was ready for a day-long procession of visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Unhappy Doctor | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...only temporary apartments. When these occupants move out in a few years 54 Dunster Street will have empty space galore, and herein seems the answer to the Alumni's worries. Office room for all Alumni activities will then be at hand in a building all their own, together with third-floor accommodations for visiting officials and delegates. And on the first floor there still remains plenty of room for a good-sized Alumni lounge and meeting place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni, Come Nigh | 4/12/1947 | See Source »

Just before 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, Mackenzie King walked down a third-floor corridor in Ottawa's Parliament Building, and turned into the comfortable lounge of the Press Gallery. For once there was no one at the card table; only a few reporters were in the room. But the P.M., eyes a-twinkle at his little surprise, waited while the rest were rounded up. Then he gave out his news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Vacation in the South | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...flew to Havana, was closeted three and four times daily with his good friend Grau. While Prime Minister Carlos Prio Socarras, an avowed candidate, cooled his heels outside the President's second-floor office. Belt used a private stairway to the third-floor apartment where Grau lived. Said Prio nervously: "If I last till Wednesday, I'm saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Broad View | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Water Haul. In Cincinnati, a burglar climbed a ladder to a third-floor office, found the combination written on the door of the safe, followed the directions, opened the safe, found it empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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