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...ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT-THE SMELL OF THE CROWD (RCA Victor) An other cast album laden with a children's chorus, this time a ragged and nasal group called the Urchins, who keep piping up to accompany Anthony Newley's singing and Cyril Ritchard's musical declamations. But the score, by Newley and Leslie Bricusse, has some good tunes, among them Feeling Good, sung with feeling by Gilbert Price, and Who Can I Turn To, the hit of the show...
...racing drivers, just being allowed to compete in the Indianapolis 500 is like being tapped for Skull & Bones. The 500 has a special sound (the roar of 250,000 voices), a special smell (burning alcohol from the cars and frying chicken from the picnickers), a special excitement (speeds up to 195 m.p.h.) and a special danger (21 deaths in 55 years). Not to mention the special rewards consisting of the money (total purse: $628,400) and prestige that go to the winner of the world's richest auto race...
That horrible smell turned out to be issuing from two sulphur bombs, commonly known as stink bombs, planted in Langdell earlier that evening by person or persons unknown. Two Circulation Desk attendants, Lawrence Corbett and Alfrado Ochoa, followed their noses and found a shoebox containing one bomb outside the door of the south entrance to the Reading Room. Soon afterwards, an unidentified law student discovered the second in a phone booth at the south stairwell in the basement...
...North Yard Janitor, Owen Roberts, reported that he arrived on duty at 11 p.m. to find three other janitors engaged in a futile attempt to fumigate the phone booth. "We cleaned it for three hours, but the smell's still there," Roberts said "I suggested in my report to Buildings and Grounds that the phone booth be removed. I wish to hell they's flooded the cellar instead," he concluded rather bitterly...
Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, reached for comment last night, said he was not present to witness the incident, but remarked "I deeply regret the smell of hell: I', against hell and I'm in favor of heaven...