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Police Sergeant John McMahon spoted smoke issuing from a window at about 11:15 p.m. His alarm brought two hook-and-ladder units and three engine companies. Firemen entered through the Club entrance on Bow St. and fought the blaze from the interior...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Fire Destroys Interior of Bat Club; Students Cheer Cambridge Firemen | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...When firemen smashed through the Club's windows to admit hose lines students chanted "Hit 'em Again Harder" and expressed loud approval of the Fire Department's quick action. Blazing curtains and pieces of woodwork were hurled out the window, narrowly missing a parked car and once hitting a fire fighter directly on the head...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Fire Destroys Interior of Bat Club; Students Cheer Cambridge Firemen | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Insurance will cover the cost of damage to the building and to the Club's interior. Firemen broke down walls in the television room, and the Club bar was destroyed. No damage was caused, however, to the Cafe Mozart or to the Gold Coast Valeteria, which occupy the ground floor...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Fire Destroys Interior of Bat Club; Students Cheer Cambridge Firemen | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...vote on the biggest morning of his life in a room stacked with deer heads, moose antlers and stuffed pheasants at Hilltop Engine Co. i Firehouse at Pocantico Hills, N.Y., the village polling place. Rockefeller bought the place some time ago to save it from foreclosure, then let the firemen have it. "How do you feel?" somebody asked. "Great!" said the Rock, 50, and he looked it-chunky, electric, tired but tireless. Way behind entrenched Democrat Averell Harriman at campaign's outset, he was now rated 9 to 5 favorite. "I've done the best I could," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New York | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Organization Champion Band marched up the street, blasting their way through the Washington Post March. Half a dozen puttee'd policemen leaped on their machines and raced ahead to clear the way. The bass drum thumped into the smoky air and crowds of civilian marchers fell in behind. The firemen followed, in step, bearing posters that read VOTE YES ON 4. A red-white-and-blue semi-trailer truck rumbled into the square snorting diesel smoke and music, staffed by ten young men who threw down handfuls of Kennedy-Furcolo buttons and armloads of paper streamers. Just ahead...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: The Penultimate Ha | 10/24/1958 | See Source »

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