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Such Sweet Sorrow. In Gallup, N. Mex., Fireman Paul Peck asked the town council to pay him for the ten days' work he did after he was fired, explained that he was hard of hearing and did not understand he had been...
While these trips have been high points of each year for most of the bandsmen, at least one of the most love members of the group can't make them. He is Paul Touchette, a Cambridge fireman, who has been with the bend since 1947 in a top trumpet-playing capacity...
...interviewed a pyromaniac. I asked him why he set fires. He said it gave him a good feeling and that he felt peaceful. He had once been a member of a volunteer Los Angeles Fire Department before getting into trouble, and he came to the show wearing a fireman's cap." Says Coates: "It's amazing how people consent to appear on our show. I can't believe it's anything but exhibitionism in most cases. We don't pay them anything. If they're broke and we feel 15 bucks will help them...
...jute mill at Narayanganj, East Pakistan, pampered their imported West Pakistan workers, gave them better jobs and a higher wage scale than the East Pakistan Bengalis. On payday, when the West Paks were lording it over the Bengalis, the atmosphere was tense. According to one version, a West Pakistani fireman reproved a Bengali teastall keeper for allowing the flames to burn too high in his oven. The Bengali took offense, and when a factory watchman intervened, another Bengali stabbed the watchman...
...final round without the loss of a game. Defending Champion Brady, who builds himself up for championship events by taking on two opponents at a time, lost only one game on his way to the final. With some 400 handball fans crammed around the glass-enclosed court, the Brooklyn fireman and the San Francisco cop had it out. The winner (21-15, 21-18) and champion for the 15th time: Fireman Hershkowitz...