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...occasion for the controversy in Student Union ranks is the instruction of delegates from the local chapter to the national convention of the American Student Union in Chicago. There the issue of definite affiliation with a radical political party will arise, and Harvard's radicals are eager to rope the local organization in on their side. By succumbing to their wiles, the Student Union will automatically cease to exist as a living force in the University...
High in the gusty November sky, painting the top of the 165-ft. smokestack of the Wagner Brewery at Granite City, Ill., Steeplejack Bert Bareiter looked down and saw that the wind had fouled his hoist rope around a guy wire 60 ft. below. He climbed down hand over hand to untangle the rope. At this point occurred a horrifying industrial accident, followed by a notable act of industrial heroism...
Just as he was about to reach the tangle Bareiter lost his grip, spun out into space. There was a grinding wrench as the hoist rope caught around his ankle, flung him head down. Then the rushing wind and the force of his fall carried Bareiter in a hair-raising arc. Three times he was swung out in the air, three times crashed against the stack before he could seize the guy wire, lash himself to it with his belt...
After Bareiter had hung in the gusty air for something like half an hour, his helpers, John Rogers and Charles Hahne, climbed up a fire ladder and, by means of a long pole, got a pulley and rope up to him which he hitched to the guy wire. Helper Rogers then snaked up the rope, cut the tangled rope from Bareiter's ankle, lowered him from his blowy height to the roof and safety...
...upon some dusty timbers. After they were examined the present sheriff of Erie County offered them to the Buffalo Historical Society as an historic relic: the gallows on which the 22nd and 24th President of the U. S. had hanged two men. The timbers were all there, but the rope was missing...