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Arson and faulty chimney ventilation are the two most likely causes of Tuesday's fire in Adams House A-entry, John W. Ambrogne, lieutenant detective of the Massachusetts State Police, said yesterday...
Although police and fire officials have not yet determined the cause of the blaze, residents of A-entry said yesterday they believe the fire began when flammable soot, which had been building up in the chimney for a long time, caught fire and sent sparks shooting out of the fireplace into an empty room...
...money, to the Santas themselves, is almost irrelevant. "Even if nothing goes in the chimney," one Santa, an ex-alcoholic, said, "if I have the satisfaction of a child smiling, it means a whole lot to me." Santas describe their job as "very nice," "rewarding," "a good time," "gratifying," and "heartwarming." As one Santa, an administrative aide in a junior high school, told me, "It's nice to see people smile, y'know, 'cause a lot of people are really bummed out nowadays." Almost to a man, they love children; most have children themselves, many have grandchildren. Several Santas work...
...permit him to ignore. "I really believed," he said six years earlier, "that the war against Hitler would bring the Four Freedoms to everyone. But I couldn't paint that today. I just don't believe it. I was doing this best-possible-world, Santa-down-the-chimney, lovely-kids-adoring-their-kindly-grandpa sort of thing. And I liked it, but now I'm sick of it." In the '60s, glimpses of a less Arcadian society surfaced in his work?most memorably, an illustration of U.S. marshals escorting a small black girl to school in Little Rock...
White smoke was still billowing Tom the makeshift Sistine Chapel chimney when Pericle Cardinal Felici stepped out on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica. After the first wisp of smoke had appeared, signifying election of a new Pope, crowds streaming toward the historic square had snarled every street in Rome west of the Tiber River. Now more than 100,000 people waited expectantly below the balcony. "I announce to you a great joy," Felici intoned in sonorous Latin. "We have a Pope!" The crowd roared, then hushed to hear the name...