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...afternoon sun of June 10 was almost down the heavens of western Eu rope when Dictator Benito Mussolini stepped out on his balcony in the Palazzo Venezia at Rome to announce that now, the Allies' darkest hour in nine months of fighting against Germany, was Italy's hour to take active part on Germany's side...
While pirate-costumed waiters whooped: "Avast, swabs!" and "Ahoy, landlubbers!" photographers climbed over everybody in search of shots and the band climbed down a rope from a hole in the ceiling. Everybody had a good drink but when they woke up the next noon, they found the Nazis were still in France and Hollywood was full of martial portents...
This is the problem of Charles Fleischauer '43, whose attempt to climb the north stairwell of Weld Hall on a hemp rope ended in defeat when he was brought down by the antiaircraft activities of the Yard police late yesterday...
Fleischauer, who is an expert on the Dutch Elm Discase, spends his summers climbing Elm trees for the Government Dutch Elm Disease Control Committee. Feeling that he needed practice, he attached a half-inch hemp rope to a third floor radiator, let it down the stairwell and began his ascent while fearful room-mates clustered around...
...anchorman, around whose hip-belt the rope passed to a double-hitch... had to observe the opposing team. . . . He gave signals verbally or by facial signs and he had the all-important job of taking in the slack or letting out the rope, by skillful handling of the 'knot.' Anchormen sometimes had knee trouble and broken arches but not heart strain...