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...trouble comes from an old, old statute on the Cambridge books which forbids parking after 2 a.m. in the morning. The Police Department defends the statute on the grounds that cars on the street at night are a hazard to the Fire Department, claiming that the firemen need plenty of room to maneuver their big equipment. But the fire department has pointed out that it can get its hook and ladders through any streets where parkers obey the daytime parking signs. The only possible justification for the ordinance is thus an imaginary one, yet the law stands...
...stage-coach are generally considered to be over; a car is often not merely a convenience but a necessity at college. Cambridge's snarled traffic and winding streets are bane enough to car owners without the curse of the parking ordinance. The ban is no use to the firemen; it means nothing more than extra work for the Police Department; for students it is the last straw. There is only one group of people who stand to gain from the parking law, and they are the proprietors of the local garages and parking lots...
...year-old barrelmaker of Alencon, clapped an unwanted kitten into a musette bag and set out for the Sarthe River to drown it. On the river's bank he slipped and fell. The kitten crawled to safety. Henri's drowned body was found later by local firemen...
...until after 7 a.m. that the Noronic's* smoldering hulk, settled in mud 28 feet below the surface, could be boarded by firemen. The wooden superstructure was gone, steel deck plates were buckled. From twisted davits hung fire-scarred metal lifeboats, looking like flimsy toys that had been smashed by an angry child. In a knee-deep litter of embers and melted glass, the firemen went to work with blowtorches, pike poles and shovels, to get to the charred bodies of those who had been burned or asphyxiated or trampled to death...
...Choreographer Antonia Cobos' middling success of 1944 and 1946, The Mute Wife. Even with Soulima's new-music, the new version was just middling. He had had less than two hours to rehearse the ballet orchestra, a part pickup outfit seldom two rungs better than a good firemen's band. And about the most charitable word the critics could find for the Ballet Russe's ragged performances was "drab." Yet, it was evidence that the son of a famous father, after only a year in the U.S., was making...