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Rugged Clinton Golden, a former locomotive fireman, a leader of the Steelworkers' Union and veteran of half a dozen Government posts dealing with labor elaborated: "The individual sought refuge in organizations [leagues, associations, societies, lobbies, bureaus, granges, cooperatives, parties] in order to protect his own integrity and to win a place in [his] fluctuating environment. . . The organization appeared ... an instrumentality for good. But after a time, the organization took on a life of its own, with ethics...
...blaze was discovered in six-family dwelling two houses away from Kirkland House at 12:20 a.m., and a resident fireman turned in the alarm. Nine pieces of equipment from the Memorial Hall and Central sq. station soon supplied three high-pressure hoses and great quantities of water as a small blaze the back stairs was quietly immolated...
Steam from an exploding locomotive had scalded Fireman Frank Mihlan of the Erie Railroad. When he was carried into Cleveland's Charity Hospital on July 15, doctors thought that he had little chance of living: 70% of his body was burned. Erie Surgeons decided to try something new. They wrapped the patient in bandages made from paper-thin strips of aluminum foil, developed by Toronto's Dr. Alfred W. Farmer. It was the first time aluminum foil for burns had been used in the U.S., the first time it had ever been used for burns of the whole...
...streets of Buenos Aires last week the talk was of football and horse races and cattle fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...
Curvy Rita Hayworth, relaxing on the French Riviera after transfusions in Paris (TIME, July 5), looked at the bright side of her ordeal: "I already have Spanish blood (from Father) and Irish blood (from Mother), but I am proud that now there also flows the blood of a Paris fireman in my veins...