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...rather have my class go to see a city council meeting or fix the city's fire hydrants than sit in school all day," says Lodwick. "They're not going to use algebra and Latin, but they might want to run for council or be a fireman some...
...career has been one headlong rush, though as tennis champs go she started late-at age eleven. She was a tomboy who played Softball with the fellas in Long Beach, Calif. Sport, she realized, was her thing, but the demand for female shortstops was limited. Her father, a fireman, suggested that she choose tennis, swimming or golf, and she squandered $8 on a purple racket with a velvet grip. After her first day on the courts she told her mother that she wanted to be "the best tennis player in the world...
...loco driver boarding at Cook is Gary Carn He and his fireman, Peter Read, carry four days' provisions in a metal tucker box, which they keep in the locomotive cab. Carn stares down the twin ribbons of steel at a sea of green saltbush that reaches out in every direction to the circular horizon. No houses, no trees; only telephone poles rushing by at 60 m.p.h. interrupt his view. "We used to stop and let the passengers pick wildflowers," Carn says. "There are 7,000 different kinds...
...Amexco hardly needs currency crises to prosper. Diversification is turning it into more of an insurance and banking colossus than a travel company. Fireman's Fund, a group of life and property insurers that American Express acquired in 1968, accounted for nearly two-thirds of the company's $1.6 billion revenues last year. In addition Amexco runs an international banking division with $1.8 billion in assets, manages five mutual funds, and owns 25% of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a major Wall Street investment house...
...When Fireman Save My Child played New York in 1929 it flopped so badly that a segment of the Harvard Alumni in New York demanded that the Pudding and its show steer clear of that city in the future. But the following year's production was so good that the alumni begged the Pudding to come back. The Pudding, perhaps a bit indignant at the previous year's rough treatment, refused...