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...Pacific. The crew of one of her lifeboats sailed 1,300 miles to the Philippine Islands, one of the longest open-boat trips since Captain Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in 1789. The starving survivors kept themselves alive by cannibalism. The menu: the chief engineer and a fireman-who (said the survivors) died of their own accord...
Schwartzkopf, dazed but unhurt, found himself on the tracks, the wreckage piled around him, the control tower aflame. A coach had sheared against the locomotive as if a knife had cut it down the middle. The Pennsylvanian's fireman and at least eleven others were dead; 42 or more were injured. The engineer lost an arm. An hour after the wreck a Chicago advertising man discovered that he still held in his hand the bridge cards he had been ready to play when the train left the tracks...
...less heroic, description of the innards of the light brick building in the spacious square under the shadow of Memorial Hall. Gone are the days of penny ante outside in the sun, of shirt-sleeved players and the inevitable kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into the past, and has introduced a strict, well-disciplined machinery to replace the former hit-or-run system of fire-fighting. The modern chief has a fingertip knowledge of the latest fire prevention methods, is a combination...
...keeping up to date on current innovations in the trade. Sabotage and its detection is a popular subject these days, as well as lectures on fire-fighting in war areas. Ping-pong, pool, pinochle, reading Time and the New Yorker take up only a small portion of the fireman's 70-hour week. Inn line with the modern organization is the system of "group shifts," which allows for a 48-hour leave every six days...
...that the Mayor is spending no less money than his Tammany predecessors, that he is head of the Mayors' lobby which is expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for pictures in chef's hats, fireman's hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy Sunday, "Schnozzle" Durante, "Chico" Marx...