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...Worry. By noon on the day after Christmas, 1,000 firefighters vainly were trying to hold back the flames' onrush; they built backfires, slashed wide firebreaks around homes with shovels and bulldozers. More families were evacuated as a second, then a third blaze ignited, joining in a savage and flaming pincer-like attack of destruction...
Last week the planners felt the first big wallop of another challenge: through local stations in major viewing areas, a broadside of some 2,500 recently available pre-1949 Hollywood movies began hitting the TV screen as if it were a bull's-eye. In a blaze of ballyhoo, Manhattan's WCBS began unwrapping its $20 million package of 725 M-G-M films at the rate of two a day. With Clark Gable in Command Decision, the station scored a whopping Trendex rating of 28.4 on Saturday night after 10:30 p.m., then found that even...
...year old Somerville youth, Robert Whelan, last night admitted setting the million dollar blaze at St. John's Church in North Cambridge Saturday...
...blaze, which occurred in Ramsey's molecular beam laboratory, started when a small welding generator overheated in "the normal course of operation." Ramsey has borrowed another generator, and expects no interruption in his work...
...ship in troops and Dinamaula is flown to exile in England. His escort on that melancholy trip is a young British war hero just starting out in the colonial service. As the flight begins, the two young men hate each other, but before they land at London in a blaze of press notoriety, there is something of friendship between the two. The young Briton confides that he is about to be married. "A white girl?" cracks Dinamaula. Both laugh, and in their laughter Author Monsarrat hears hope for the future...