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...minute later, at 4:19, Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina jumped out a window of the consulate (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and the most sensational story of the week tumbled right into the lap of the press. The men went to work on it as swiftly as firemen sliding down a pole...
Child Prodigy. In Danbury, Conn., firemen answered a false alarm, nabbed a four-year-old boy, who promptly punched one of them in the eye, brought out the rest of the department with another alarm, and escaped in the confusion...
Slogan. In Tokyo, firemen who have been influenced by U.S. advertising meth ods proudly displayed Fire Prevention Week signs, urging citizens to "keep your home burning." Habit. In Baltimore, Arthur Jackson left home and a bitter farewell note to his wife explaining that he was sick & tired of her and the four children, signed himself "your loving husband." Defeat. In Malden, Mass., C. Edmund Snook resigned as executive secretary of the Northeast Essex housing development council, explained that he couldn't find a place to live...
...railways, seized by the Government nine weeks ago to avert a strike, were returned last week to private ownership. The three holdout brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, switchmen) agreed, at long last, to the same 15½?-an-hour wage boost which had been accepted some time ago by all the other railroad workers...
Their reasons were simple. A federal court had enjoined them from using labor's ultimate weapon, the strike (TIME, July 12). More important, their colleagues, the conductors and trainmen, were already demanding another 25% wage boost. The engineers, firemen and switch men wanted to get the 15½? raise tucked away so they could quickly get in line for another helping...