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...Found on the Princeton campus night after the game was the body of Jay Franklin Towner III, son of a Baltimore vegetable packer. When an autopsy disclosed internal injuries, broken wrists, face abrasions, police surmised that he was crushed in the crowd leaving Palmer Stadium, picked up by someone who intended taking him to the infirmary but dropped him on discovering that he was dead...
Home from the hospital, Bryan Untiedt, 13, hero of the Towner, Colo., school-bus catastrophe (TIME, April 6 & 13), sat on the livingroom couch with his frost-bitten feet in a pan of hot water and watched his younger brothers and sisters play. All had been frost-nipped except Virgil, 11, who had not attended school that blizzardy day. "He wouldn't be so fresh if he'd been on the bus," Bryan remarked to a visiting newsgatherer...
...blizzard was gathering its fury when the school bus started from the schoolhouse at Little Towner, Colo, one day last week. That was why Teacher Maude Moser had called off classes?to get the children home in time, safely...
...took four years to write, but tells of the happenings of only 24 hours. It starts with rich, spiteful old Hector Champion's dinner party in his Manhattan apartment, then follows each diner home: Spinster Savina Jerrold to her spinster-shared brownstone house, her spinster memories; Clubman Jim Towner to his night-club mistress; Tycoon Melbourn first to jilt his paramour, Jim Towner's wife, then to propose honorable marriage to cool, semi-adventuress Mrs. Wintringham; young Philip Dantry to his first night of love with his clay-footed actress idol. Other figures, not so outwardly respectable, join...
...NEILE F. TOWNER...