What are the main events in "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" by Jack Finney?

The main events are a little difficult to sort out for
this story because author Jack Finney weaves the main action events with the main
psychological events and with flashbacks used to explain Tom's situation and choices. So
in a way, to find the main events, you have to choose between main action events, main
psychological events and main explanatory events. Since space is limited here, we'll
tackle the main action events.

Of course the main events
start with the exposition. Tom has cancelled plans to go to the movies with his wife
Clare in order to write an Interoffice Memo about an important independent project of
his own design. Tom forces open a stubborn window for air since the room is warm
(probably because the building hall is warm). Tom guiltily sends Clare to the movie
alone.

Tom forces the front door shut against the rush of
warm hall air into the cool air of the apartment. He turns to see papers fluttering to
the ground and the all-important yellow sheet of paper, with the shorthand notes of his
project idea on it, sail out the window.

When Tom see the
paper is stuck at the corner of the ledge, he eventually rejects all ideas but the idea
to climb out along the ledge to retrieve it. He climbs out with stomach, chest and face
pressed to the brick wall. These are the main events that lead Tom to the adventure and
terror of a lifetime.

After inching along the ledge, Tom
dangerously bends down to successfully grab the paper. Unfortunately, while bent, he
sees down the heights to Lexington Avenue far below and Loew's theater in the distance.
He is overcome with terror, weakness, faintness and becomes paralyzed, without courage
and unable to move. In a massive exertion, Tom begins to move again, this time back to
the window. Between here and the window, Tom goes through many psychological events and
there are explanations, but we'll confine this to
actions.

He arrives at the window. He is thrown off by the
emptiness his fingers encounter instead of brick wall. He nearly falls off, instead he
drops to his knees pulling the open window shut with his falling
weight.

he
was kneeling on the ledge, his forehead pressed to the glass of the closed
window.

Dropping his palms to the sill, he stared into his living
room--at the red-brown davenport across the room, ... and at his papers, typewriter, and
desk, not two feet from his
nose.

From this position he
must break the glass to get in. Many actions--envelopes lit as signals, coins dropped
below to hoped for passersby, yells--had failed to gather notice; he must break the
glass. Tom ultimately succeeds in driving a mighty fist-punch through the glass and
falls part way inward. After picking away the glass shards, he crawls into his
apartment.

In shock, he lays the yellow paper on the desk
where it had been, weights it down ineffectually with a pencil, goes to the closet to
get his topcoat and hat, then exits to find Clare at Loew's. As he pulls the door shut
behind him, he sees the pencil fly and the yellow sheet of paper flutter out the open
window. Tom laughs in ironic derision and disbelief. He goes to find
Clare.