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...morning a commuters' train wound across the rolling country outside Moscow. Its 21-year-old engineer had a record of twelve reprimands for misconduct. Its fireman had been discharged twice, arrested once. Its brakeman had been reprimanded for drunkenness. Coming into a station named Fraser, the playful engineer ran past two stop signals. A stalled train stood dead ahead. The roistering brakeman's brakes failed to brake. Result: 19 dead, 44 injured. Last week a Moscow court sentenced engineer and brakeman to be shot dead...
...educate my children." Mail Carrier Harold Henry and wife stopped worrying about how they would pay for their new baby, expected any day. Ronald Gandee, 24-year-old Coast Guardsman, shouted that at last he could marry his sweetheart Frances Longley. Tony Roberts, 26, milker; Warren Wosser, 28, jobless fireman; Eddie Souza, 24. substitute fireman and James Nettro, 26. trainman, all gloated over hauls of ten to 75 lb. and dreamed their dreams...
Death and injury came in curious ways. A New Jersey fireman, knocked into a drift by a fire hose, lay there unconscious until his fellows discovered him, a solid block of ice. A Long Islander tried to get home, found he could not make it, broke a window to find shelter in a vacant house, gashed his arms and bled to death. Three Jerseymen were marooned all night in their car near Harmony. Next morning they set out for help. One fell exhausted. When his companions returned with help he was frozen stiff. The Long Island...
...rather be a fireman than a policeman in the winter, because firemen wear boots," revealed Hugh O'Connell, now appearing at the Metropolitan in a shortened version of "The First Little Show." Mr. O'Connell can be quoted as an authority on the subject of policemen and fireman, having portrayed one of New York's finest in "Face the Music" and now appearing as the cultured fireman in the "Little Show." "But in the summer I'd rather be a policeman, because their uniforms are lighter. To tell the truth, I really don't care about the matter. Boston policemen...
Last week when the Congress Hotel burned in Tucson, Ariz. Fireman John Freeman was given a $50 tip for lugging out heavy suitcases for several "wealthy Easterners." Next afternoon, thumbing through a detective magazine in the firehouse, he stared at likenesses of two of the generous strangers. Minutes later Tucson police started a manhunt for John Dillinger and his gang who week before had looted the First National Bank of East Chicago (TIME...