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When James joined the P.M.A. kitchen staff as a 17-year-old in 1900, the school had less than 100 students, was housed mainly in three frame buildings on a hill overlooking the Hudson River, 45 miles north of Manhattan. In 50 years, while Peekskill has been more than doubling in enrollment and gradually accumulating a 13-unit, $1,000,000 plant, James estimates that he has turned out about 9,000,000 meals, not counting thousands of between-meals snacks...
...little privacy. Although I have a lavatory to myself, I must share the bathtub with ten other people. The place is too small to permit any entertaining, and so little resistant to sound that any noise can be heard throughout the building. Every time I step into my kitchen or go into the hall I hear the intimate sounds of my neighbor's lives. As a final touch, the landlady occasionally takes advantage of my absence to let herself in and snoop through my things...
...from the University a month ago because of illness, was found dead yesterday in his apartment on Chauncy Street in Cambridge. Police said that William L. MacDonald 1G discovered Harris with a Navy type gas mask covering his face. A hose connected the mask to a jet in the kitchen stove from which gas was flowing...
Businessmen labored up 20 flights of stairs, got to their apartments breathing heavily and looking as disheveled as molting chickens. Garbage piled up outside kitchen doors 26 floors above the street. No mail or newspapers flipped down outside the doors. Grocery boys refused to make high-altitude deliveries, and floor neighbors who had never before spoken got together to pool food supplies...
Ravenous 'Cliffedwellers who try to break into the padlocked iceboxes, avoiding detection by the nightwatchmen by hiding behind the kitchen equipment are flirting with pro, or at least a good tongue lashing...