Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music Appreciation. In San Marino, Calif., Eakle Wesley Cartwright Jr., 22, who was charged with setting fire to his family's house three times in a single week, surprised firemen on each occasion by calmly sitting in the living room playing classical records, explained to police: "Beethoven thrills...
Since its completion in 1901, the boat house has suffered from fires nearly every year. In 1925 a mysterious fire started in the lounge upstairs open only to varsity crew members. Firemen claimed that the blaze was started by a cigarette, but the coaches naturally refused to believe that any crew member would smoke, especially in sacred territory. They maintained that a nest-building bird flew in with the lighted Lucky...
...there was no fire, and the firemen were only playing it safe. They had come to clear the aisles and exits. The show went on-an astonishingly popular amateur performance, seventh in a series of public forums on "You and Your Health...
They pushed into the Tower to hear 15-minute lectures on subjects that ranged from "The Common Cold" to "Constipation and Cathartics." Last week more than 1,900, the largest crowd yet, waited out the fire scare, filled up the aisles again after the firemen left, and carried on a brisk, free-wheeling discussion of "Emotional Problems...
...called The Committee Against the High Cost of Living, and called on the workers to assemble at Praça da Sé, before the city's unfinished cathedral, for a "March of the Empty Pots." Policemen with loudspeakers warned the strikers to disperse. Instead the crowd grew. Firemen turned their hoses on the strikers, who reacted with laughter and jeers until the plainclothesmen waded in, swinging rubber truncheons. Saber-wielding cops on horses charged into the mob. Tear-gas bombs ricocheted off iron-shuttered shops and cobbled streets. Fifteen strikers were wounded, one cop stabbed...