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...fire, believed to be the work of an arsonist, broke out in the CRIMSON building early Sunday morning causing damage estimated...
Celine writes as the mind is purported to think: in fragments. His narrator is a wounded veteran from the French army of World War I who goes to live in London, among "pimps, prostitutes, a pawnbroker, an arsonist, and a magician." The action shifts from place to place, almost at random, and the transitions are so violent as to be unintelligible. Unintroduced characters appear and drop out, but they are not missed. At the close of the work the narrator catches a bus. The book is finished, and the narrator forgotten...
...control, and watching 19 different fire-engine companies come roaring to the scene. Then, just as the wind rises, you get a message saying that what the editors really want to know is the amount of property damage and also a complete biography and personality sketch of the arsonist." Actually, says McConaughy, the number of Congressmen a reporter talks to each day is not necessarily significant. "One day you may spend six hours in the House lobby just fishing and shooting the breeze and talk to 30 of them and get nothing. The next day one phone call will result...
Sandwiched in among questions about political affiliation and the ownership of bathrooms are several revealing facts about the Class of '26 that few people knew before. For instance, the Class boasts in its ranks one former presidential candidate, one probable embezzler, one arsonist, and one fellow responsible for "the secreting of a stink bomb in the ventilating system of the New York Stock Exchange...
...mysterious Claverly fires, termed the work of an arsonist two weeks ago, are still the subject of police investigation, Detective Captain Patrick F. Ready revealed last night...