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...fire inspectors, the blaze was set on top of 12,000 pounds of unused paper by a person or persons who entered a side door into a basement folding room in the 14 Plympton St. building. Most of the damage resulted from water poured on the burning paper by firemen and a sprinkler system...
...herself with three boys on her hands (now 16, 13 and 8) and no money coming in. While she was being refused one singing job after another because of her age, she kept the family going with occasional $15-or $25-a-night appearances at Kiwanis Club parties or firemen's balls...
Despite the danger involved in answering more than one thousand alarms a year, the Cambridge firemen live a worthwhile, somewhat leisurely, self-satisfied life, a happy contrast to their neighbors living across Broadway...
...Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, veteran Cinemactress-TV Comedienne Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern, 47, perplexed by billows of smoke that rolled from the fireless fireplace of her 14th-floor suite, opened her windows and sounded the alarm. Firemen appeared, then rushed down twelve stories to learn that a guest in a second-floor apartment, after igniting some logs in its fireplace, doused them on observing that the flue was all but clogged. The absent tenant of the lower suite: Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87, a great fireplace fancier, who has also been known to prohibit smoking by people...
...firemen noted that "furniture, clothing, flooring, and door-casing" were destroyed. One of the men remarked that "if it had not been for the sprinkler going off, probably the whole building would have gone." As usual, an entire engine company, consisting of three engines and two ladder trucks, was sent...