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Fighting small fires all over the world while the arsonist sat back unharmed was a prospect that bothered many Americans. What had flitted across their minds was put into words by Harold E. Stassen...
...corny folksiness, his deep sense of tragedy and tasteless gothic excesses are all brought together. About half a dozen stories are as good bits of fiction as have ever been written in the U.S.: Barn Burning, a poignant sketch of a boy's anguished love for his arsonist-father; A Rose for Emily, that hair-raising classic of a lady's decline to necrophilia; Wash, a magnificent portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against his landlord; Dry September, a lynching story to end all lynching stories; A Courtship, a richly comic tall tale...
...been confined to Belle-Vista by the Veterans Administration. Confronted by investigators, Verna confessed that he had wandered into the basement and set fire to a towel near a laundry chute. "I got a sick feeling and had to do something," he explained. He was, said investigators, a "hero arsonist," one who likes to get credit for sounding alarms and helping out at fires. After setting the fire, Verna energetically aided in the rescue, pausing twice to let firemen clear out his smoke-filled lungs with oxygen...
There have been four minor fires around the College in the last ten days, which has suggested to some keen minds that an arsonist may be at large. If this is so, I would like to beg him, on behalf of the entire Harvard community, to stop setting these petty little blazes and to start thinking...
Memorial Hall is the first project that comes to mind. And when he is finished with that, he should waste no time fingering the ashes. Let him go immediately to the junction of Mt. Auburn and Bow Streets and look about him. That is one place where no sensitive arsonist could fail to see his duty...