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...Last Outpost." Later, she and her husband pointed out the room where they would hole up if the going really got rough-the pantry. "The bathroom is overhead," explained Mrs. Hawkings, "and that has a thick cement floor. Between the outside walls of the house and the pantry are two thick inner walls." Into the hallway by the pantry, Hawkings had already moved a mattress, four gunnysacks of rice and a row of tin trunks...
Television in the Bathroom. For some time Thora suffered in silence. But recently fiftyish Understudy Erica O'Foyle had to go on for her. Like many another understudy in her big moment, Erica was nervous, but she did fine for two acts. Then she put on the bewitched jacket and started the third. She went pale, choked and forgot her lines. "My throat went suddenly dry," she explained weakly after the curtain finally came down. "I felt a great hand clutching me from behind. It was horrible." She indignantly denied any suggestion that the trouble might have stemmed from...
That night impressionable Erica went home to her flat and fell into a troubled sleep. At midnight, she awoke to hear her pet cat screaming. Standing in her bathroom, she swore next morning, was a tall figure wearing the polterjacket. As Erica cried out in terror, the figure turned slowly to reveal the hideous face of an old crone. "I stared it away," reported Erica bravely. "It came up and then faded away like a television image...
...local newspaper became self-appointed "expediters." Benefit dances and basketball games were held. The committee's zeal was unbounded; they got a lot in a fine residential section and built a $22,000 house with an elevator shaft, ramps for Bob Hoelzle's wheelchair, and special bathroom fixtures...
With some of his award money, Brand expects to pay off a $200 balance on a new bathroom and get the house painted. The award, he thinks, is a fine thing: "It will make attendants work hard and feel they are getting recognition for their work...