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Within, the sheetlet gloated. Columns aired triumphantly the doings of Photographer Richard Sarno in stealing the picture. Obtaining a top floor apartment next door he climbed out the skylight and crept to the roof edge. Patiently peering at the baby porch a floor below him, fortified with a roof repairman's tools and a bland air of industry in case he was surprised, the hours slipped by. Swaddled thickly the baby slept below. It was dusk, and no picture. The next day Sarno crept out on his roof again. Late in the morning Baby Vera stirred, tossed. The tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sleep, Baby, Sleep | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...which has been called "Twentieth Century Cambridge" in style, is a modern adaptation of the best in Georgian architecture. Viewing it from the shallow quadrangle formed by Emerson, Sever, and Robinson Halls, one is impressed not so much by its magnitude and line as by the open expanse of skylight and the suggestion of a bright, shadowless interior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opening of New Fogg Museum Monday Culminates Era of Advancement in the Field of Fine Arts | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

...work on we'll hurry to finish this." Questioned as to the merits of the structure, he divulged that this was his beat effort. "It's 10 feet longer than the cage I built up in Andover and it's got the biggest skylight of any cage I know of. The track's two feet narrower than the one up there, but it's 10 laps to a mile and that ought to be plenty for anybody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreman's Next Job Will Not be Building Baseball Cages--Wants a Hard Job--"Nothing to This," He Declares Scornfully | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

...Confidence, I asked the way to the next town, and was shown the road to 'Nelli's Aprin' the local metropolis, a village of 150 inhabitauts. I discovered that other settlements in te vicinity were named 'Skylight FiftySix', and Hamstring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atlantic Ocean Doesn't Mean a Thing to the Hill Billies of Hawg Eye and Nellie's Apron--Ozark Sage a "Smart Un" | 10/14/1926 | See Source »

...This he did. But no sooner had I got inside than I leapt out again−or I had invaded the room of one of the sleeping female servants. . . Eventually I climbed to the roof of a one-story wing of the palace, smashed a skylight, dropped through." Jim Johnson, Mayor of Shelby, Mont.: "The Common Council, in session, voted unanimously to invite the Prince of Wales to the Dempsey-Gibbons fight and the rodeo, July 4. Said the telegram in part: 'These are events of red-blooded sport and the invitation is extended to a red-blooded sportsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Jun. 18, 1923 | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

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