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...knew what it was talking about. Unheeded by other papers or by state officials, Newsday had been loudly hammering away for more than three years at corruption at the Long Island track in Nassau County. Last week Newsday's three-year-long campaign finally paid off with a blaze of Page One stories in the Manhattan dailies on one of the biggest state scandals in years. As a result, ten Roosevelt track and union officials were indicted for "extortion," and Governor Thomas E. Dewey named a special state committee to investigate corruption in harness racing...
Ready accused illegal parkers of creating a fire hazard and referred to last spring's Winthrop House blaze as an example. "The fire engines couldn't get within 50 yards of the place," he claimed. "Now if the boys defy the regulations they're going to be in real trouble. We've been lenient in the past and it was to the boys' advantage, but it must stop...
...Point Barrier. One of the National's top events is its men's pistol match. Firing 270 rounds portioned equally among pistols of three calibers (.22, .38, .45), each marksman must blaze away in tests of slow fire (one shot a minute), timed fire (five shots in 20 seconds) and rapid fire (five shots in ten seconds). Target distances range from 25 to 50 yards. With each bull's-eye counting ten points, a total score of 2,700 is possible-but fantastically improbable. In some 50 years of National pistol contests, only nine men have ever...
Volunteer firefighters made the mistake of turning a hose on the blaze, only helped to spread it. Soon a blazing oil tank set a tar roof afire, sending a shower of burning tar on fleeing workers. Firemen came by scores from half a dozen towns, but were helpless. Three workers and one fireman perished* and 40 others were injured. Solvents, cleaning compounds, acids and gases burst into angry, hungry flames that were whipped by a brisk west wind. Steel columns twisted and dipped like trees bowed by an ice storm. It was the worst fire in the history of Detroit...
Blowtorch. In Oakland. Calif., firemen put out a fierce blaze in the Y.M.C.A. library after Jim Heckle, a carnival fire-eater, was seized with a coughing fit during a performance...