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Playoff fever this late in the season is a novelty for the Crimson. "I told them that yesterday in practice," says Cleary. "Wouldn't it be nice for the seniors to go out in a blaze of glory and make the playoffs...
What Magrane saw was the core of the urban renewal area engulfed by fire. The blaze skipped from building to building for more than 14 hours. Some 600 fire fighters converged from 91 communities in Massachusetts and nearby New Hampshire to battle the fire and to evacuate 750 residents. By the time Fire Chief Joseph Scanlon declared the conflagration under control at 4:55 p.m., four city blocks-about 6½ acres-had been devastated. The losses: 17 buildings leveled, nine more badly damaged; 37 businesses providing 1,500 jobs burned out; $50 million in real estate ruined, plus...
Equally sobering was the assessment of city and state inspectors that the fire was probably caused by arson. The circumstantial evidence was persuasive. There had been three previous fires of suspicious origin within two weeks, all of them next door to the building where officials believe the blaze began. But baffled investigators could find no rational motive: the building belonged to a state-chartered development agency, and was minimally insured. Dejected Lynn leaders can take heart from the example of Chelsea, Mass. (pop. 25,431), just five miles southwest. In October 1973 a fire there destroyed 360 buildings over...
...Lynn's own rich 352-year history is an even more reassuring example. Almost to the day 92 years ago, the "Great Lynn Fire" gutted four banks, three newspapers, 158 factories, 128 homes and 80 shoe companies, the latter reflecting an industry entrenched in Lynn since 1635. That blaze, claims Retailer Barry Zimman, a former president of the Lynn Chamber of Commerce, unexpectedly brought Lynn renewed prosperity. It cut a swath through small outdated structures that were replaced by big brick shoe factories-some of them destroyed in what residents are already calling the "Second Great Lynn Fire...
Some of the men in whom Harvard lit the holy fire turned impure, fanatical, in the heat of the blaze. Then as now, Harvard's erudition and concentrated intensity alone could not insure that the leaders she nurtured and inspired would do good work in the world. Harvard men figured prominently in the conversion of enthusiasm to immoral horror that was the Salem witch trials, and students now-shivering in the same wood-paneled common rooms, watching the same inhuman blustery gusts of a Cambridge winter--may not have that much trouble imagining why The Crucible rings true...