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...Returning from the Brooklyn waterfront, Comrade Troyanovsky found the Russian embassy in Washington (onetime home of the late George Mortimer Pullman) finally fixed up and ready for occupancy. A new heating and cooling system, a modern kitchen had been installed, but there had been no Russian money available for replacing the ornate chandeliers, the tsaristic red plush furniture...
...cook named William Rasch was making sausage gravy for breakfast in the kitchen of an old lodging house at Lynchburg, Va. one morning last week. The sputtering grease caught fire, sent a blaze up to the ceiling. Rasch hurried the night watchman to a room containing fire extinguishers but it was locked. Overhead 100 sleeping men, wards of the Federal Transient Relief Bureau, leaped out of bed, ran for the windows. No fire escapes. They rushed to the back of the building. A wall of flame. Some jumped in terror from upper windows. Others swung in their underwear from...
...minutes later a wild-eyed truck-driver burst into the Lambda Chi kitchen. ''Where's the furnace?" he cried. A startled chef pointed to the cellar door. The truckman clattered down the steps, dived for the furnace, switched it off. Not until then did he draw breath to explain that by mistake he had filled the tank not with fuel oil but with gasoline. All that saved the Lambda Chi house from destruction were a few inches of oil left in the tank, which fed from the bottom. The gasoline was just about to drain into...
...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 parvenu. The banker kills himself by accident while trying to poison the rest of the company. Curiosity and alarm set others...
...tutor in Adams, when asked for his views on the subject of the night lunch, expressed himself as being heartily in favor of the project. He said that Adams House was a particularly logical place for the grill, since it had its own kitchen and was close to those houses which are not served by the Eliot night lunch...