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Axel Anderson, fireman, had almost won the hand of Rita Coates, teacher, when the Lynn. Mass, school committee intervened last month to say that Miss Coates could not have both her job and Axel. "This condemns me to the life of a spinster," mourned Rita Coates. "I have no choice unless I wish to desert my father and mother who are absolutely dependent...
...colleges in 43 states had already asked for showings last week. The Museum hopes to supply 500 in the next two or three years. First sample on its list of two hour programs: "Primitives, especially Melies* trick films and early Edisons, up to The Life of an American Fireman...
...Died. "Fireman Jim Flynn" (Andrew Chiariglone), 55, heavyweight, only boxer ever to knock out Jack Dempsey; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Twice defeated by Negro Jack Johnson, Flynn became a trial horse for heavyweights of the ''White Hope" period, was on the down grade when he managed to floor Dempsey in one round in 1917. Next year Dempsey, on his way to championship, knocked out Flynn in one round...
This fabulous performance prompted even his bitter enemy, Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, to recite the story of how "Ed" Kelly, son of Fireman "Steve" Kelly, was born blind; how he gained his sight at the age of 18 months when his mother washed his eyes with her own milk; how he became a newsboy at 9, an office boy at 12, a day laborer at 17. The New York Times, a thousand miles away, was prompted to print such a eulogy as it seldom accords even a great statesman. And Franklin Roosevelt, landing in Florida, was prompted...
This $17,000 marvel of modern engineering can raise an 85 foot ladder in any desired direction, thanks to its 200 horse power Hercules engine. "One beauty of the hydraulically operated ladder," explained an elderly looking fireman, "Is that a man can perch out on the end of it before it is raised and save himself the climb...