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...story that he has a secret friend named Mr. Beelzy, who won't let anybody hurt him ("He said he'd come like a lion, with wings on, and eat them up"). Father goes upstairs to give the lad a spanking. "It was on the second-floor landing," the tale concludes, "that they found the shoe, with the man's foot still in it, like that last morsel of a mouse which sometimes falls unnoticed from the side of the jaws...
...Harry Truman than a morning without a brisk walk. As if to prove it, he canceled his regular walk on his first bright, breezy morning in San Francisco last week to try to make peace among California's demoralized, feuding Democrats. First he held court in his second-floor Fairmont Hotel suite for a procession of party leaders. Then he dropped down to the Fairmont's soft-lighted Gold Room for a lunch of crabmeat cocktail and turkey breast, and a full-throated political stump speech to Democrats from eleven Western states, Hawaii and Alaska...
Easy Out. In Portland, Ore., during a heated argument with a woman in a second-floor room, Sherman Baker walked out in a huff, under a misapprehension and through a window...
...patient who had been "dead" for 82 minutes was walking up & down the second-floor surgical ward of Colorado State Hospital in Pueblo last week, as though nothing had happened. A tall, dour-faced man of 59, he stood erect and stepped right out in his sloppy hospital slippers. He did not talk much, but that was part of the mental condition which brought him to the hospital three years...
Brown was busy in Homicide's second-floor office when we arrived at the Berkeley Street headquarters. The desk sergeant told us to wait. Brown would be glad to see us in a first floor waiting room. He walked out of the elevator about ten minutes later, a stocky, sandy-haired man in a neat brown business suit. He knew about the Traveler story and he was indignant: "Nobody ever saw me about this," he said. "It is absolutely untrue . . . it has no basis in fact." He told us that he was working on an extradition from Jersey City...