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Last week, a 60-year-old Salem fireman died of a heart attack while fighting a major blaze...
...suddenly found himself covered with spray and looking out at the harbor. Soon he and other passengers were pulling the flight crew out of the water. Welsh saw someone splashing ten or 20 yards to his left, well out of his reach. Then the person disappeared. Welsh told a fireman what he had seen. Back in the terminal, Welsh noticed that two men who had been sitting in the first row seemed to be missing. But World Airways announced that all 196 passengers and twelve crew members were safe. "I couldn't sleep at all that night," Welsh said...
...people free from odd compulsions. An otherwise impeccable butler, intolerable to the Warner family because of his ghastly smile, returns as a volunteer fireman to avenge himself with a carefully misdirected extinguisher on the house that rejected him. On an idyllic holiday in Wales, little Sylvia and a friend come terrifyingly close to burying another child in the sand. With chilling serenity the memoirist comments, "Children driven good are apt to be driven...
...city's West Side, ignited accidentally by a homeowner who used a blowtorch to defrost his frozen plumbing, ultimately destroyed 15 houses. The fire department had to cope with frozen hydrants and bursting hoses as well as the wind-whipped fires. Retreating from a flaming house, one dispirited fireman kicked at a useless ice-filled hose. "We lost it," he growled. "We're frozen...
True, pro-wrestling and its wholly unassociated amateur counterpart both entail fireman carries, barrel roles, and navy stacks. But collegiate grappling alone has in many ways achieved the stature of true artistry. The Crimson's Tony Bienstock compares wrestling to the paintings of Winslow Homer, while Medalie sees similarities between his sport and Renaissance Leonardo Da Vinci...