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This week, on the eve of Oscar post time, the moviemakers were busily grooming their hottest entries and preparing to trot them out. Along Beverly Hills's Wilshire Boulevard and in several art theaters in the year's last week, marquees will blaze with a flurry of top-fated (by their makers) new titles. The leading entries...
PUSS IN BOOTS (28 pp.)-Translated by Marcia Brown-Scribner ($2). A free translation from the French of Charles Perrault makes this classic bubble with mirth while Marcia Brown's illustrations blaze with color...
...answered a call near the Square. It was from the house of a widow with four children, and the kitchen, where the fire had started, was gutted. There was a tremendous hole in the roof, and it had been alternately raining and snowing for days. The firemen brought the blaze under control, nailed a tarpaulin over the hole, cleared away the debris, and before they left, one of them remembered to wish the widow a Merry Christmas...
Damage to the Law School building was estimated at $2,000 by the University Fire Department. The blaze was probably started by a cigarette butt smoldering in a couch, they said. Walls were stripped to the bricks and books ruined as firemen chopped and sprayed to stop the fire...
...fire department and the Buildings and Grounds condemned Big Tree in the spring of 1951. A small wastepaper basket blaze that started during a traditional "after-the-show" party touched off an investigation. The blaze was quickly extinguished, but Buildings and Grounds termed the building's contents "highly inflammable" and recommended that the H.D.C. construct sets somewhere else...