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...getting in fights, which he always loses. He is an expert with dice, and has a pathetic eagerness for a respectable job that makes him vulnerable to his wife's malice. Bill is dragged out of a bar, sobered up, and hired as Pineboro's only salaried fireman. Some day he plans to be fire chief. The turn of the screw is that his brother-in-law (who has seduced Bill's good-looking wife) merely wanted to ruin Bill once & for all. With stupefying smalltown cunning, he calculated that some day Bill would be drunk when...
...Williams had tried just about everything - cowpuncher, railroad fireman, mule skinner, tattooer, prize fighter, machinist. None of these tries had brought him much of a living. In his spare time in smelly bunkhouses, roundhouses and ma chine shops, he had even drawn cartoons. One day he sent N.E.A. a drawing of a fire chief too fat to get out of his chair for an alarm. N.E.A. wired him from Cleveland to come in. When Williams got back home to Alliance, Ohio, he had a contract to draw cartoons...
...Cigar. In Geneva, N.Y., a ten-year-old lad who stopped a New York Central freight train by shooting the fireman with a BB gun admitted to police that he had been in error-he was aiming at the engineer...
...gathered nicknames-the Little Flower, Butch, The Hat, the Little King. He posed for photographs in gas masks, baseball caps, catcher's masks, chef's caps and fireman's hats. During campaign speeches, he used his horn-rimmed spectacles as sword, scepter and backscratcher; he spat on imaginary apples, kicked imaginary footballs and screeched vulgarly at his enemies. He started a weekly radio program, on which he told housewives how to cook spaghetti, and, during the 1945 newspaper strike, read comics to their offspring...
...Minaki Special bore straight down the main line. On No. 4, Engineer Gibson and Fireman Hazen Lawrie saw its headlight. They waited a moment, thinking it would stop and go into the siding, as it was supposed to do. But it sped past the switch. As they jumped, they heard the shriek of brakes...