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...another, the orchestra played The Fireman's Quadrille, during which a fire alarm clanged, men in helmets dragged in hoses, doused real water on fake blaze. Such was unmusical America of the 19th Century, as portrayed by David Ewen in Music Comes to America (Thomas Y. Crowell; $3). Picturing a young nation's groping progress toward musical maturity, the story is by turns comic, valiant, humiliating, prideful. No scholarly treatise, not even an error-free* record, the book is none the less an engrossing, vivid history (as Mark Sullivan might tell it) of music's impact...
Hall of Flame. In Brattleboro, Vt., loose matches in a fireman's pocket set his pants afire while he was attending a meeting of fire fighters. In Madisonville, Tex., the fire department finally found a way to get rid of crowds that interfered with their work. At every alarm the assistant chief drove a spare truck in the wrong direction, led all the fire buffs astray...
...Field Marshal and a donkeyman, a woman fireman and a countess, a former Lord Justice and an architect, King George VI last week gave due honor for their services to the Empire. In this year of war the New Year's honors list ran into hundreds of names, was 56 pages long, as against 44 last year. Most honors went for war services, overseas and at home. Two Britons were elevated to the peerage...
Auxiliary Fireman--regular training, including handling hose, ladders, water and first aid equipment, etc. The class will be limited to 50 students, faculty, and male employees. It will require between 30 and 40 hours, with 2-hour sessions to be arranged for once or twice a week in the late afternoon or evening. The first meeting will be held early in February at the Fire Station opposite Memorial Hall. Mrs. Wise will answer questions about...
Sleeper's Slip. In Memphis, a sleeping fireman woke to an alarm, jumped to the slide-pole, dropped like a plummet, broke his legs. Both his arms had gone to sleep...