Word: blazed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Former University students David G. Lyon '32 and Ernest Hampden were driven back by the intense heat and flames as they tried to push into the living room in an attempt to rescue Gardner. They too turned in an alarm and then battled the blaze unsuccessfully with a hand extinguisher...
Cigarette Started Blaze...
Lyon and Hampden asserted last night that the flames were concentrated in the corner of the living room where Gardner had been sitting, and both agreed that an uncared-for cigarette had started the blaze...
...usually-calm, blue eyes would blaze indignantly, though, if anybody tried to tell him how much sawdust was needed to best cushion the loam in the jumping and vaulting pits. He knew how much was needed, and for years he had charge of the pole vaulting pit at the big indoor invitational track meets in Boston Garden. He remembers every detail of Dutch Wamerdam's record-breaking hoist of 15 feet, 7 1/4 inches...
Horrified, Mrs. Hanowell protested to local radio stations-to no avail. She wrote sponsors and got no answer. Then she began to distribute petitions to "eliminate such programs." The petitions spread through Washington, she says, "like wildfire." By months of furious fanning, Mrs. Hanowell spread the blaze into 44 states, got 350,000 names on her petitions. Recently the state organizations incorporated into the National Council for Youth Entertainment, talked of erecting a building, of getting after comic books and mystery movies once radio's hash was settled...