Word: cocoanuts
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Holy Cross had just beaten Boston College: downtown Boston was full of men & women eager to celebrate or console. Many of them wound up at Cocoanut Grove: they stood crowded around the dimly lighted downstairs bar, filled the tables around the dance floor upstairs. With them mingled the usual Saturday night crowd: soldiers & sailors, a wedding party, a few boys being seen off to Army camps...
...downstairs bar, a 16-year-old busboy stood on a bench to replace a light bulb that a prankish customer had removed. He lit a match. It touched one of the artificial palm trees that gave the Cocoanut Grove its atmosphere; a few flames shot up. A girl named Joyce Spector sauntered toward the checkroom because she was worried about her new fur coat...
Panic's Start. Before Joyce Spector reached the cloakroom, the Cocoanut Grove was a screaming shambles. The fire quickly ate away the palm tree, raced along silk draperies, was sucked upstairs through the stairway, leaped along ceiling and wall. The silk hangings, turned to balloons of flame, fell on table and floor...
BOSTON--All entertainment was banned from Boston night sports as investigators sought tonight to place the blame for the Cocoanut Grove holocaust and to prevent a recurrence of the disaster that claimed at least 460 lives...
Miss Sydney E. McKenna, Radcliffe '44, died yesterday in Massachusetts General as a result of injuries sustained in the Cocoanut Grove fire. Memorial services for Miss McKenna, the second Radcliffe casualty of the tragedy, will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow at Christ Church...