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...three affidavits were sworn to by his two daughters and a son-in-law. They all told the same story: Long ago John G. Wendel had summoned Lewis James Little to his Fifth Avenue home to deliver a baby. After birth the baby was stowed away in the house attic for several weeks, later smuggled out of the house, given to a family named Morris. The father of the baby, the affidavits alleged, was John G. Wendel; its mother John G. Wendel's spinster sister, Mary...
Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...
...Ninth Guest (Columbia). The luxurious penthouse in this picture is even more sinister than most attic apartments in the cinema. Upon their arrival the guests (a college president, an instructor whom he has discharged, a politician, a banker, a journalist and assorted women) cannot find their host. Presently a voice in the radio informs them that the doors are charged with death-dealing electricity, that there are cocktails in the kitchen and poison on the mantelpiece, that they will all be lucky to get out alive. The oldest woman present commits suicide when the radio denounces her as a social...
...persons who envied him his catch was Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of New York's Bronx Zoo. Ever since the night some 40 years ago when a bushmaster, sent by a Trinidad collector, chased him around his attic room, Dr. Ditmars has had a special regard for this snake. He has had three specimens, but the last one died 20 years ago. He went to Panama looking for one last year, again this year, with no luck...
...benefit of that ignorant majority, then, let it be made known that: (1) There are rooms in the Union; (2) They are on the third floor, not in the attic, kitchen, or cellar; (3) They are handsome, spacious, and airy and have a commanding view, which is not only beautiful but is useful as well, in that it includes in its scope three large, accurate tower-clocks; (4) To live in them is to live as in a club--a floor below are ping-pong tables, library, and for the Merrimaniacs a History Reading Room. Two floors below are dining...