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Although the museum was open to the public on Friday, only a small group of visitors and a reduced staff were on hand. The showcases opened were in a third-floor room of the museum on a table...
...third-floor office in the gloomy old Federal Building in Minneapolis one morning last week, Special Master in Chancery Howard Strickland Abbott donned his black topcoat, his grey fedora, picked up his brief case and set out for the yards of Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. It was Mr. Abbott's duty to put that dilapidated 1,600-mi. railroad on the auction block. By court order he was to offer the road at "the main entrance of the division superintendent's office at the Cedar Lake Shops." Arriving at the precise spot on the second floor...
...smelled smoke at 3:15 o'clock and, verifying the message of his olfactory organ, notified the Fire Department immediately. An enthusiastic group of spectators urged firemen on with cries of, "Come on you, break it in!" directed at several smoke-eaters who were climbing up to the third-floor windows. However, the firemen did not comply with these demands. Shouldering their axes, they entered the building the usual way: by opening windows...
Last month as preparations for the Manila Congress went forward, Pius XI lay racked with pain, dying some thought, in his third-floor chamber in the Vatican. To his bedside one day went a visitor who could not be put off, an old friend and trusted servant from across the Atlantic: Dennis Joseph Cardinal Dougherty, 71, Archbishop of the See of Philadelphia (824,250 Catholics), Metropolitan of the Province of Philadelphia (2,080,788 souls in six Sees), Titular Priest of Rome's Church of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo, member of the Congregations of the Sacraments, of Sacred Rites...
Track hazards, in the form of parked autos and strong winds make handicapping more difficult than at Jamaica. But spectators, with one voice, declare that the gentle (third-floor) rain from heaven, which tastes much like beer, makes the Harvard course not only faster and more slippery, but it also tickles the palate more than the ordinary Jamaica downpour...