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...alarm fire sent clouds of smoke through an apartment house directly across from the College Observatory on Concord Street. Among those fleeing the blaze, which was confined to the basement, were the Massachusetts' Governor's sister, Marie Dever, and several families of University employees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concord Street Blaze | 2/13/1951 | See Source »

Incorruptible. In Chicago, after feeding without charge the cops and firemen who were battling a blaze near his restaurant, Al Lee found a parking ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Moors residents doused the blaze with tap water a minute later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moors Gets A Close Shave As Flesh-Pot Bubbleth Over | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

...fire companies answered the subsequent alarm quickly, and put out the blaze before it could spread to adjoining rooms. Though the sofa was completely destroyed, and some clothing damaged, Eugene R. Hurley, Jr. '53, an occupant of the room, estimated damage at less than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaze in Dudley Quickly Nipped | 12/13/1950 | See Source »

Rumor shrouds the tombs thicker than their sagging ivy wines. Campus reports say that Skull and Bones men will leave the room when their society is mentioned; that firemen once entered Berzelius to douse a blaze and had to be accepted as members; that hair-raising and lascivious practices occur inside the meeting-place vaults. Actually the "spooks"--as sour-grapes outsiders call them--take their membership very seriously. Henry L. Stimson always stayed with fellow Bonesmen in Paris, rather than with the ambassador; Professor F. O. Matthiessen laid his Bones Key on a farewell note before jumping...

Author: By John J. Back, Edward J. Coughlin, and Rudolph Kass, S | Title: Yale: for God, Country, and Success | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

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