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...Saturday afternoon fire in Chipps Clothiers, Mt. Auburn st. clothing establishment, drew a crowd of more than 500 curious undergraduates before firemen from the Lincoln sq station succeeded in extinguishing...
...Firemen said damage was principally in the Harris tweed section of the shop, but declined to estimate the extent of loss or speculate over the origin of the blaze...
...fire was first spotted by four Cambridge moppets and before it was over, 10 engines were on the scene. Firemen attributed their difficulty in fighting the bloke to the fact that the burning wool emitted smoke instead of burning cleanly...
Volunteer Firemen. The history of the Moina Michael commemorative was fairly typical. About 75% of recent stamps, commemorating everything from the Palomar Mountain Observatory to volunteer firemen, were based on sketches submitted by Congressmen or their constituents. But when the busy Bureau designers are given a slightly freer hand, as with the Fort Kearny commemorative to be issued next week, they do not do perceptibly better...
...heat wave set off all kinds of trouble. In New Haven, Conn, and Milton, Mass., firemen had to turn up and cool off drawbridges which had expanded in the heat. Indianapolis had a plague of Peeping Toms. In Lakeview, Mich., a 16-year-old boy fainted while cutting wood, toppled into a buzz saw, and was killed. By week's end 147 people had died, mostly from heat prostration. New York police, ordered to help keep the city's water consumption down to 1,300,000 gallons a day, were driven wild by wrench-waving gangs who turned...