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...spinoffs of the Fox housing proposal (for God's sake, don't stop reading now, there's a joke in the next clause of this sentence)--aside from the accidental relocation of the entire Harvard Square vixen population to North Cambridge by a well-lubricated Buildings and Grounds workman who misunderstood his foreman's instructions--is the Strange Brew Coffeehouse, which opened last Sunday night on the fourth floor of Hilles library...
...most under-rated pianists in his smooth accompaniement. The album is fortunate to have "Hub Cap", a long unavailable cut featuring Hubbard, Heath, and Philly Joe Jones, among others. And, for those who are collecting them, there is a dandy "Body and Soul" with Hubbard, Shorter, Reggie Workman (on bass) Philly Joe and Walton. Easy listening...
...woman who had been raped and beaten to death in a bloody 45-minute battle in her apartment. The rapist-killer, on parole for armed robbery, had been allowed into the building to move furniture in a next-door apartment, even though he was clearly drunk. Worse, a fellow workman noticed his absence when he heard the woman screaming. Instead of rushing to the rescue, he phoned his boss. The jury found the murderer's employers and the landlord liable. The company had not checked out the man's background, while the landlord did not provide adequate screening...
...Smith devoted many of his meditations to just such questions, with startling results. He spent at least ten years writing a book that friends despaired of his ever finishing. Smith described himself as an agonizingly slow workman "who do and undo everything I write at least half a dozen times before I can be tolerably pleased with it." He worked out most of the wording on solitary walks along the windswept shores near his home town of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, then often dictated the results to an amanuensis. He finally published the work in March 1776, under the mouth-filling title...
Construction begins again on the Nathan Marsh Pusey Library after a Buildings and Grounds maintenance man discovers that the floors underground have been installed upside down. "They told me to walk down three flights to clean the skylight on the floor!" the workman reports...