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Meanwhile he makes his headquarters in Morgan Hall with an arduous daily routine punctuated by cross-country telephone conversations and interviews with visiting firemen. He mixes a wicked martini (olive included) evenings 'at home.' Weekends with his wife Both he points his Cadillae toward Osterville on the Cape. There in a twelve-room hideaway (one forthcoming complete with tennis court will overlook the sea) he can unbend briefly. Dean David likes gardening: behind the custom-tailored exterior and million-dollar glad-hand he is fundamentally informal and original-thinking. "He works with stuffed shirts very well indeed," Associate Dean Stanley...
...last Tuesday there were hardly more shoppers than clerks in Ballantyne's, biggest department store in South Island. Many of the staff, following Christchurch custom, were at afternoon tea or were just ambling back to their counters. They smelled fire and saw wisps of smoke but, told that firemen were arriving, carried on with their jobs. Then, in a twinkling, the acre-wide building was a pillar of flame. Fire broke from the shallow basement, seared the main floor, exploded upward to the second and third...
Passers-by saw girls screaming at top-floor windows; then blasts of fire blotted them from sight. Moments later some of the same figures could be seen again, burned to blackened skeletons. The heat melted stonework to limy slag. In all, the destruction lasted just 16 minutes. Firemen counted 41 dead, none positively identifiable, in the worst fire disaster in Dominion history. Two days later, when New Zealand put out flags to celebrate the royal wedding, Christchurch flags flew at halfmast...
...Jersey City, ex-Mayor Frank Hague, onetime political Pooh-Bah of New Jersey (and longtime embarrassment to Franklin Roosevelt), tossed some pearls to a gathering of rookie cops and firemen. "Stay out of the clutches of money lenders and don't get tied up with liquor," advised his ex-honor. "That's why I was successful. I had will power...
...Student council, could fill the need. Working closely with the House dance committees, the managers of the teams, and hotels and College temporary housing officials, it would be able to coordinate the plans of all parties, and see that the best hospitality is given to Harvard's visiting firemen...