Word: firemanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fireman's job is not the joyous round of pinochle games, maiden rescuing, and whizzing through streets that ordinary citizens, when forced to the side of the road, are wont to claim. He must answer calls in the most miserable weather, and if his beat happens to be Harvard, or another college, he can be sure that he faces heckling, flashbulbs in the face, and an agonizing spurt of low humor begun by the question, "Hey, why do you wear red suspenders...
...witness stand came Ivan himself, then eleven years old. Awed by the serious grownups, he told the court that he liked school, dogs, cats and soccer, but he did not like girls. He did not want to be a fireman or a locomotive engineer when he grew up, but a house painter like his father. Who was his father? "Gustav Sirsch." Who was his mother? "Josefine Sirsch...
...13th Amendments to the Constitution. In the end, 18 of them took refuge in the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. As they testified, they knew that the New York City board of education was listening. The board contends that under the city charter, any municipal employee-cop, teacher, fireman or bureaucrat-who refuses to answer on the ground of self-incrimination may be fired from...
...French-German-Italian-Hawaiian Mrs. Jacqueline Liwai Pung, wife of a Honolulu fireman and mother of two, the U.S. Women's Amateur golf championship, two and one on the 35th hole, over Shirley McFedters, University of California at Los Angeles coed; in Portland, Ore. Roly-poly (210 lbs.. 5 ft. 3 in.) Mrs. Pung, 29, after winning was given a buss and a lei by U.S. Golf Association President Totten Heffelfinger, who asked her to bring her hula gear to next year's tournament...
...persistent playgoer in Manhattan, a man must really love the theater. If he wants to see a hit play on Broadway, he is likely to be insulted by the box-office attendant, scalped by a ticket broker, upstaged by the usher and snarled at by a fireman. He will find no place under his seat to park his hat, he must refrain from smoking, and, if he wants a drink between acts, he must fight his way through the crowds and buy it somewhere down the street...