Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeps in summer in a pup tent on the Bellevue-Stratford's roof-as he did in his gay seventies-he still spurns an elevator to descend from his ninth-floor rooms to the street. Neighbors who used to complain about his bouncing a medicine ball against the wall, he now outwits by merely tossing it in the air. Under his bed he keeps a rowing machine, used daily. And every morning he stretches himself, "just like a cow or horse." He has survived three wives and still enjoys nightclubs. To young men he advises: "I never have known...
Mural paintings are usually unveiled with only a little more fanfare than attends the effort of a carpenter putting the last lick on the last nail in a wall. But in San Francisco and in Swarthmore, Pa. last week, two new murals were opened to the public in the midst of such community excitement that the paintings themselves were all but lost sight...
Young, radical Corliss Lamont, son of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont, received last week a special permit to pass behind Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow to the Red heroes' burial place at the base of the Kremlin Wall. His mission was to investigate the grave of John Reed, U. S. Communist, journalist and poet. He found it intact. The first American to visit the grave since U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William C. Bullitt placed a wreath on it in 1932, Corliss Lamont hoped to spike rumors that Reed's body had been...
...some 1,500 residents of Shawneetown, Ill., sheltered behind their 60-foot flood wall, lost contact with Harrisburg, Ill., 23 miles away. The great Ohio Basin flood had cut them off from their nearest municipal neighbors and the world. As the flood waters rose, a Harrisburg ham (amateur short-wave operator), Robert Tompkins Anderson, volunteered to set up an observation post as near as he could get to Shawneetown and establish two-way radio communication with relief agencies that were trying to bring help...
...truck and boat (equipped with only one paddle), Amateur Anderson ferried his transmitter and receiver to a high spot six miles across the flood-swollen Wabash River from Shawneetown. When it became obvious that the Ohio would spill over Shawneetown's flood wall, Shawneetown's residents were evacuated to Indiana and Kentucky on orders received over Ham Anderson's radio. Evacuation was effected without loss of a single life. And after four raw, wet, sleepless days and nights, Ham Anderson went home...