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Listeners rushed downtown, saw angry flames licking the structure, heard screams of agony within. In ten minutes it was all over. As in Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire (TIME, Dec. 7) many died trampled at the exits, some were unrecognizably burned. The death count was at least 100, and rising...
...Harvard men in the past two months. 150 pints of blood, enough to save the lives of ten persons, were promised to the Red Cross Blood Bank in Boston. Yet, in the face of a critical shortage caused by the use of some 500 pints in the treatment of Cocoanut Grove victims, Harvard students have failed to take advantage of the best means yet offered to "do something" while waiting Army call...
Four student officers of the Naval Training School lost their lives in the Cocoanut Grove disaster, it was revealed yesterday. Although three of the deaths were known several weeks ago and the body of the fourth officer was found last week, the list had not hitherto been published. Announced through Washington, the names could not be released until next of kin had been informed...
Citing examples from the recent fires in East Boston and the Cocoanut Grove, Dr. Martin Spellman, Medical Examiner of the Boston Fire Department, addressed a group of ARP workers and doctors last night in the New Lecture Hall on the subject of rescue work at fires and other grave emergencies...
...efficient and honest municipal government which has arisen as a result of the Cocoanut Grove fire, will be futile until the American public realizes that it is itself responsible for inefficient and dishonest city government. This particular idea has been recounted time and again, but with the glaring example of this horrible fire before the people it should be drummed into them that efficient city government can only be had with efficient and honest governing bodies. The people must come to the realization that higher salaries must be paid to city officials so that: (1) men with greater ability...