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...opening story of the inaugural is by Harold W. Smith '42 1G, a former president of the Advocate. Titled "The Fireman's Hat," Smith's work has been termed by John McC. Howison '47, head of the literary board "a serious fantasy...
...right, son," replied Old Gene. "But son, go easy on that white-primary bill. They got a nigger fireman down here...
Calendar Girl (Republic) is a rickety little' mutton-sleeved musical about a turn-of-the-century rooming house for artists. Typical characters: a fireman's daughter (Irish) whose father thinks ill of artists; a patrician two-timer (rich, from Boston) who retouches a portrait of her into fancy leg-art; a poet who sings like, and is played by, Kenny Baker; a straight man who writes songs and gets the girl. Typical comedy routine: a firemen's tug of war complicated by a banana peel and a sneeze. All this corn has a kind of innocence about...
...Four days after installation of the ''foolproof" traffic control system was proudly announced to the press last winter, it failed to function, sent a freight head-on into a passenger train, killing a fireman. The Rio Grande has had no other fatality since McCarthy took over...
Orphaned when he was 13, Hiroshige immediately took over his father's post as a Tokyo fireman. Between fires he taught himself brush drawing. Hiroshige's later prints rivaled even Hokusai's for force of feeling, showed exactly how close art can come to nature without being naturalistic...