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...usual in an emergency, they reacted with remarkable individuality. Floyd Wallace of Leslie, Mich., claims to have found a way to concoct a gasoline substitute by cooking in a big steel drum ingredients as unlikely as wood, leaves, brush and a soupcon of everyday garbage. In Massachusetts, the Warren Savings Bank whittled electric usage by doing its evening banking by candlelight; the city fathers of Block Island, R.I., put the community back on daylight saving time. Students at Boston's New England School of Art devised a means of keeping their nude model warm when they turned the thermostat...
...students said he was from ABC television and asked Coppersmith for permission to take pictures of the drum at Soldier's Field for publicity of the Harvard-Brown game...
After showing an ABC press card, Rainie said, the ABC impersonator asked Coppersmith and conductor Thomas Everett to help the other four Brown students, who claimed to be Crimson reporters, load the drum into their truck...
Rainie said when they got to Soldier's Field, the Brown students told Coppersmith and Everett they were from Yale and they were taking the drum to New Haven...
...Talk about getting duped," Rainie said last night. "They even helped the guys load the drum. I just can't believe...