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...York received a tel phone message to hurry over to a home in the upper Eighties, off Park Avenue." The physician "was conducted upstairs to a bathroom on the third floor where a middle-aged woman wrapped in bath towels was seated" on what polite Kolyumist Kitchen called "a window sill, part of the low window having been converted into a seat." Situation: the sill had been freshly painted; the lady was stuck, to move caused her extreme pain. Solution: the physician called for carpenter's tools, removed sill & lady, soaked her loose with gasoline...
...Bishop William Thomas Manning's rich Cathedral of St. John the Divine, long abuilding in Manhattan, Banker William Woodward, whose racehorses (Gallant Fox [retired], Sir Ashley, Sir Andrew, et al.) have won $89.543 in purses this year, gave $80,000 for a rose window 40 ft.in diameter, in memory of his parents and his uncle James T. Woodward (from whom he inherited his estate at Bel Air, Md., his large holdings in Central Hanover Bank & Trust...
...sinking! Jump for your lives!' No fool to remain aboard a sinking ship, Arthur Fournier jumped through the window, was killed...
...jumped and "was killed" how do you know what he was dreaming? However your surmise, if such, is good. On the other hand it appears that Arthur Fournier was a "fool." It is not always wise to jump from a. sinking ship and seldom wise to jump through a window...
...word. Politics went out the window...