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While 300 student cheered and snapped pictures from the sidelines, Cambridge firemen had a hard time dousing a small fire in the chimney of a Plympton st. home next to Leverett House at 1:15 p.m. yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Firemen Wrestle Tiny Blaze In Chimney as Mob Exults | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

Ready or not ... In Tallman, N.Y., Joseph Castellucci returned to his summer home shortly after the deer season opened, found: 1) a bullet-scarred chimney, 2) a well-riddled wall, 3) a bullet hole in the front window, 4) another in a bedroom mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Vigeland planned his park so that everything leads up to a monolith-a vast pillar with 121 entwined figures, carved out of a single 200-ton piece of granite. My four-year-old boy described it as "a pretend chimney with monkeys." Vigeland put it differently: "The monolith is my religion." Most observers think that he was trying to show humanity struggling upward, but since he never explained, it is also possible that he intended to show humanity losing its grip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Monumental Zoo | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...that interpretation as a criterion by which to judge the play. But last night, when roars of laughter greeted each stupid blunder made by the generals and the visiting congressmen, it leaves some doubt as to whether Mr. Haines has succeeded in making his point. Stupidity is laughable in chimney-sweeps and char-women, but it becomes something else when found among men with the whip in their hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Command Decision" | 10/2/1948 | See Source »

...British tropical colony of Kenya, malaria and dysentery are rife; schistosomiasis, caused by parasites, is so common that the natives just don't worry about blood in the urine. They live in crowded, chimney-less huts amid smells that nauseate Europeans; food is bad and poorly cooked; 84% of the natives are undernourished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Sanest Africa | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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