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Real Fuel. All this seemed redolent of flackery, and the Beatles were certainly well publicized. But no press-agent can light a blaze like that-he can only strike a match here and there and pray to the pressagents' god. The Beatles are being fueled by a genuine, if temporary, hysteria. In every part of the U.S., teen-agers are talking about little else, and superthatch Beatle-size wigs are being sold by the hundreds of dozens. But part of the Beatles peculiar charm is that they view it all with bemused detachment. If they are asked why they...
...blaze was apparently started by a cigarette left burning in the bedroom. The occupant of the room, Frank O'Toole '66, had left to study in the House library. O'Toole's roommate, Onwechekwa Okigwe '65, was studying in another room when the smell of smoke alerted him to the fire at 11:26 p.m. Okigwe quickly got a fire extinguisher, but professional help was summoned to finish...
...time had only 35,000 inhabitants, the theater was built to full Parisian scale, at a cost of 800,000 gold ducats-plus free building materials contributed by unenthusiastic peasants. Only five years after its opening, though, the building burned to the ground. Duke Max watched the blaze and wailed through his tears: "I won't survive this loss-my theater, my beautiful theater...
...temper of our times, Mr. Kennedy will not have died in vain." As a memorial to the fallen President, the New York Herald Tribune proposed "the resolute determination to see to it that never again should tinder be scattered around that might lead to such an evil blaze." Said the Los Angeles Times: "The assassin's bullet might wound the heart, but it could not still the inexorable beat of America's destiny...
...Grady started the fire by smoking in bed, but the blaze was extinguished by neighboring students before the fire department arrived...