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Fuel Hardy. In Statesville, N.C., Kenneth Turner Bauguess tried his best to keep Police Sergeant C. R. Lloyd from helping him put out a fire in his car, was arrested when Lloyd insisted, ordered him to lift the hood, found that the blaze was caused by a broken jar of bootleg whisky that had caught fire from contact with overheated parts of the engine...
...York proved that buffaloes are not extinct, and the football team's first encounter was indicative of events to come. Following the team's first loss, the Varsity Club mysteriously caught on fire. And, as a result, the Harvard Band, which lost most of its scores in the blaze, was added to the New York Times' list of the Hundred Neediest Cases...
Widespread rumor attributed the sign and the blaze to irate cat-haters of C-Entry who were trying to burn several kitties in effigy. It is said that the discontents were retaliating against the actions of several cats owned by the House Senior Tutor, Robert M. O'Clair...
Behind crucifers and candle bearers, vergers, marshals and a blaze of flags, six processions filed into Washington's Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul one day last week. In the last procession, robed in white, red and black, walked a slight, silver-haired grocer's son from Oshkosh, Wis. to be installed as the 21st Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A...
President Eisenhower mounted the rostrum, took his place before the blue-topped lectern in a blaze of a dozen klieg lights. He looked well-erect, dignified, relaxed, smiling broadly as he acknowledged the applause, "Thank you! Thank you!" He sounded well-his voice was firm, alert, vital-as he prefaced his speech by saying Happy Birthday to the presiding officers. Vice President Richard Nixon, 46 that day; Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77 that week. Then President Eisenhower set about "showing" the 86th Congress by refusing-even with the Communist planet orbiting the sun and the U.S.S.R.'s Anastas Mikoyan orbiting...