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Five years later Burns and a youth named Bern rented a second-floor loft and opened BB's College of Dancing. They got together a four-piece band so noisy that it had to play near an open window to let the bulk of the syncopation blast into the street. This also served as ballyhoo. The boys got some of their customers by going to Ellis Island and approaching immigrants just off the boats. The sales talk: one of the first requisites of U.S. citizenship was a $5 course of dancing lessons...
...court, was all against him. But New Jersey's Hague-hating Governor Charles Edison cried: "Persecution . . . outrage!" Then Governor Edison set about to prove his charge. To his 24-room Llewellyn Park home one night he invited a group of investigators. He took them to a paneled, second-floor study lined with books and pictures of his inventor-father...
Roosevelt. So, for 29 years, Colonel Edmund W. ("Big Bill") Starling has studied second-floor windows, climbed into attics with a flashlight, intently scanned the faces of milling crowds...
...daytime performance of Mozart's Concerto in G Major, in London's war-stripped National Gallery, quietly the Queen appears, among the bemused faces of her subjects. As the magnificently formal music falls from the air, the camera disengages itself from the concert room, steers soberly, at second-floor height, through disformed, tragic London...
...From a second-floor barricade five Russians with rifles faced 15 Germans. They held off the Germans until another band, clambering up a fire escape, attacked them from the rear. Then they retreated to the third floor, where they fought on. An excited, roaring Russian caught a German grenade before it exploded, tossed it back at the Nazis. Next morning, just as the Russians' ammunition was giving out, a clamor of shouting came from the roof. Red comrades had crossed adjoining roof tops to the rescue. Charging down the stairs, they drove out the Germans, who left 52 dead...