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Professional Gallery. In Tupper Lake, N.Y., 2,000 members of the Northern New York Volunteer Firemen's Association raced from their convention to a blazing house nearby, shouted advice and aided local fire fighters until the structure burned to the ground...
...upper floors flames raced to the old women's quarters before firemen could head them off. The Mother Superior, Sister Rita Gervais, dashed in with a fire extinguisher; she never came back. The blind, bedridden and crippled were trapped. All hope of rescue went when the roof crashed and the old building blazed like a well-flued furnace...
...Firemen raised a ladder against the kitchen wall, climbed up with axes and fire extinguishers, entered through the roof, and then quickly extinguished the blaze...
Harry Truman has had his picture taken with so many visiting firemen that White House cameramen have reduced the rite to clockwork routine. Not a moment was lost when he walked out to the White House rose garden one day last week to be photographed with a group of United States Attorneys and their families. He took a place in the front row, the photographers lifted their cameras, and the visitors quickly stiffened and stood looking as though they were about to be squirted with a garden hose...
Last week Moran, disgraced, stripped of authority, and on trial for perjury, sat in a federal court in Manhattan. He heard four firemen who had served as reception ists in his office give a different total: Weber visited Moran 111 times. Moran did not take the stand; his lawyer introduced no witnesses in his defense. The jury's inevitable verdict: guilty. A flush crept up Moran's neck, but he said nothing when the judge gave him the maximum penalty for perjury: five years and a fine...