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...Institut de France's rickety stairs, to the second-floor conference chamber, hobbled some two dozen venerable French "Immortals"-scholars with "glorious pasts and no futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
Geronimo! In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt on a ledge, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...
Until John Lewis burst onto the scene, the Miami council meeting had followed the familiar, doldrum-ridden pattern. The members-whose ages average 63-met only until noon, then sunned themselves (fully clothed) on the roof garden or the second-floor veranda, where they watched Biscayne Boulevard's traffic, talked about old times, and cursed C.I.O...
Spittoons & Specials. Life became more exciting when Papa had to sell the claim he staked in The Run and moved his family into Enid. From the second-floor porch of the midtown office building where they lived, Markey was edified by a clear view into the high-fenced enclosures provided by Enid's saloons for patrons to sleep it off. "Gillespie Brothers was the best for sights. At Sunday-school time on Sunday morning you might see the forms of men who had been there all night, still as stiff as cordwood." Markey met the heavy financial demands...
Bess Truman had found the living quarters freshened up by painters and carpenters. On moving day there was little commotion. Daughter Mary Margaret's piano was hoisted to the second-floor living room, but most of the Truman furniture had been sent ta Independence, Mo. Mrs. Truman's mother, Mrs. D. W. Wallace of Independence, was there to help with the settling down...