Word: firemanning
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...looked round then to his black, greasy fireman...
Died. Stephen J. ("Steve") Farrell, 69, longtime (1912-30) University of Michigan track coach; of a heart attack; on the university golf course at Ann Arbor. Connecticut-born, he learned to run as a volunteer fireman, was a harness-mate of three fleet youngsters famed in later years as Princeton's white-polled Keene Fitzpatrick, Harvard's "Pooch" Donovan and "Mike" Murphy of Yale, Hill School and Pennsylvania, all track coaches. Never an amateur, Farrell became so famed a professional that U. S. backers sent him to England where he twice won the rich Sheffield Handicap. The Barnum...
...DEVIL'S DEN-Lawrence Saunders -Covici, Friede ($2). Murder in Connecticut's swank art colony; investigation by ex-Fireman Lundberg and friend stirs up scandal but exposes the criminal...
Then she went back. There were no vamps in the fire houses, there was scarcely a fireman in San Francisco who could harness a horse. In 1925 she suffered a stroke, spent her last four years speechless in Dante Sanatorium. July 20, 1929 she died, childless. Her fireman's badge was buried with...
...city, which I have always loved." Architect Arthur Brown Jr., designer of San Francisco's City Hall, designed a monumental lighthouse, a fluted column rising from a severely simple base, its apex pierced with galleries for an observation platform. From its tip will blaze a flame that no fireman can quench, fed by city...