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Most of the fire engines in Cambridge went racing to Winthrop House Saturday night to fight a blaze which destroyed a room in F-entry...
Since its completion in 1901, the boat house has suffered from fires nearly every year. In 1925 a mysterious fire started in the lounge upstairs open only to varsity crew members. Firemen claimed that the blaze was started by a cigarette, but the coaches naturally refused to believe that any crew member would smoke, especially in sacred territory. They maintained that a nest-building bird flew in with the lighted Lucky...
...Lider's bidding armed mainly with cans of gasoline. Gaily yelling "Perón! Perón!'', they broke into the empty headquarters of the Socialist Party and set it afire. Spectators, among them Police Chief Miguel Gamboa, gathered to watch the blaze. The arsonists, now a hundred strong, moved on to Radical Party offices and set them ablaze...
...should lock those guys in their rooms after every practice," said the fiery coach upon hearing of the loss of two starters. Monk Aiello, diminutive attackman, was burned in a freak blaze Saturday, and defense stalwart Ed Sexton was hurt in a weekend auto accident. Other starters Jim Telfer and Pete Palches are still on the inactive list because of vacation injuries...
...They were asleep in their huts as the silent Mau Mau warriors moved in for the kill. The first wave of attackers barred each hut door, the next, carrying torches, set fire to the grass roofs. Then, as the terrified villagers came stumbling out of the blaze, the executioners went to work with long sharp knives...