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Nightclubs have always had their own brand of pollution: cigarette smoke. But now one nightclub chanteuse at least is trying to clear the air. Felicia Sanders, sometimes known as "the American Edith Piaf," recently introduced It's a Drag to patrons of Manhattan's Rainbow Grill, an elegant gin-mill-in-the-sky atop the RCA Building. Though the customers habitually puff away until the air turns blue, Sanders' smoky boogie had them snuffing out their cigarettes in alarm...
...oversaw the activities of the reclamation squad that yanked gold teeth from the mouths of corpses (319,000 lbs. of gold from dental fillings, wedding rings and other jewelry were shipped to the Third Reich from Treblinka). He also pioneered the building of a so-called "grill" made of railroad rails that served as a primitive crematorium...
Building and Grounds has just completed installation of bars across all the basement windows in University Hall. At $100 per grill (a workman's estimate, and excluding labor costs), our office alone has $1100 worth of "protection." Similar protection is being afforded basement windows in every building in the Yard...
Even to readers unskilled in the law, the unfairness of many of Hoffman's rulings is bluntly clear. The Judge permitted the prosecution to grill poet Allan Ginsberg about his homosexual background-but Hoffman ruled that all defense testimony about the Chicago convention was irrelevant. The capping moment in this display of bad judgment comes when Hoffman forbids former Attorney General Ramsey Clark to testify for the defense...
...organized 121 breakfasts, including three last week. Invariably, they are held at 8:15 in the President's Room at the National Press Club. Only 20 reporters-the number that fits the table-are invited. Invariably, the guest finds that he is the main course as the newsmen grill him for 75 minutes...