Word: dickmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Head Down. Hebron's volunteer firemen were driven back by one explosion. "Through the wreckage and out of the smoke came this man carrying a small child," said Fireman Paul Dickmann. "The man's hair was all burned off, his face was burned, and there appeared to be flesh hanging down from his hand. 'Get to someone who needs help,' he said. Then he collapsed in my arms with the child." A 15-month-old baby lived through the crash, as did Chris Haile, 5, and his little sister Eileen, 2, whose parents were killed...
...Stand. Some death notices, like Miss Hopkins', mature along with their subjects. In St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch obituary on former Mayor Bernard Dickmann, now 76, has gathered dust for 30 years. The Chicago Tribune cast two galleys of type on Charles Lindbergh so long ago that no one on the staff remembers the obituary's vintage year. During a 1936 visit to San Francisco, George Bernard Shaw, then 79, was offered the chance to edit his own obit in the Chronicle. Shaw let it stand...