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FOOTNOTES
The Night the Lights Went Out
The morning after the November gth
power failure, the question was, "Where
were you when the lights went out?"
Everyone had a story, but the greatest
inconveniences doubtless befell the
ladies.
At Two Broadway in New York, about
a hundred people were stranded on the
22nd and 23rd floors. By eleven p.m. all
but two dozen had groped their way
down all those flights; those who remained
dozed away the night—on reception-
room sofas, on chairs and on
the floor.
Henrietta Baiersdorfer was putting
up 32 nightlines on the switchboard
when the lights flickered off. True to her
professional code she stayed at her post
for the next five hours. Had she known
what it would be like going down those
23 flights, she'd have stayed all night.
Her knees would scarcely unbend when
she got to the bottom.
Mrs. Haggerty stayed all night but
had great concern for her deaf sister
alone in the house in brightly lighted
Jersey. Unable to hear the phone, the
sister wouldn't understand why Mrs.
Haggerty didn't come home. Eventually
a relative was able to visit her and reassure
her.
Harrowing adventures befell those in
the various pipelines between office and
home. Sybil Schmille found herself at
Madison Square after seven hours of
walking and bus riding that got her no
nearer home. She entered a dingy hotel
and was given a two-inch candle to
guide her up nine flights to her room.
In the inky blackness she couldn't bring
herself to touch the bed; so she dozed
in a chair and escaped at the first crack
of dawn.
Sally Levinson, caught in the subway,
held hands with her friend Maita
as they groped to a crowded station.
She let go Maita's hand to get through
a turnstile, then reached quickly to recover
it, calling "Maita, Maita, let's go
this way." The hand pulled free and a
voice said "Lady, you have the wrong
hand."
In Boston, Sidney Ann Robinson was
driving from work to Pratt Hospital to
visit her father: "Suddenly downtown
Boston was lost in blackness. The radio
station went off the air. There was no
explanation. When I parked the car I
found I had no dime for the meter.
Passersby couldn't change my quarter
but one man insisted on giving me a
dime saying 'If this means the Russians
are here I'll be glad my last capitalistic
dime went for a good democratic cause.'
I told myself not to panic—and ran for
the hospital." Inside the hospital, which
had no emergency lighting, Sidney Ann
could see doctors in the operating rooms
with flashlights strapped to their heads.
The hospital staff was busy giving everyone
sleeping pills, and within minutes
all the patients were asleep. She
headed home to take one too.
Eva Anderson had a rush report in
her electric typewriter when power
failed in the Rochester report department.
She turned to composing a ballad
of how William Gasser, partner-in-charge,
left the building:
Candle, candle, burning bright,
Guide Mr. Gasser down the flight;
(How many steps are eight floors down
from heaven,
Split into groups of three and sometimes
seven?)
Cross that out—delete—he's found!
It was the other way around,
He beat the candle to the ground. -
NAME FROM TO NAME FROM TO
Robert T. Bagshaw
Staff Accountant
James W. Dishort
Staff Accountant
Conrad C. Demro, Jr.
Partner
Norman R. Glick
Staff Accountant
William C. Grapes
Staff Accountant
Claude J. Grenet
Staff Accountant
Manfred Heinzeller
Staff Accountant
Earl L. Henrichs
Partner
Jerry C. Hess
Staff Accountant
Dale F. Hoffman
Staff Accountant
Lawrence L. Leonard
Staff Accountant
Harold G. Levell
Principal
New York
Cincinnati
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Omaha
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Moves Between Offices
Patrick G. Marra
Staff Accountant
Edward J. McGovern
Manager (MAS)
Donald B. Miller
Staff Accountant
John C. Pert
Partner (DPHirS)
Bennett S. Robinson
Principal
William H. Ryan
Staff Accountant
Robert E. Sohr
Staff Accountant
Lester G. Taylor
Partner (DPHixS)
James J. Valo
Staff Accountant
Leo deVerteuil, Jr.
Staff Accountant
Kennard W. Webster
Partner
Charles W. Wilkins
Partner
Hardy T. Williamson
Principal
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New York
San Diego
Santiago
Executive Office
New York
New York
Lima
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Houston
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Lima
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Executive Office
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Allentown
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