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...flash on United Press wires-JAPAN ACCEPTS-set off a few more celebrations around the world. In Sydney, Australians attacked firemen and wrecked their trucks when the authorities tried to water down a victory riot. In the two minutes before U.P. discovered that somebody had played a dirty trick (see PRESS) the U.S. and Canadian radio had gone overboard, and thousands were roaring in the streets...
...boring start and failing to attain the standards set by the first, featured ballet routines well danced by Harold Lang and Babs Heath. In a stirring finale Mr. Rigaud gave a ridiculous performance of Strauss conducting a 1000 piece orchestra, a chorus of 20,000 voices, and 150 clattering firemen, which had been assembled for a Peace Jubilee Concert...
...women caught by the recurring minor explosions were burned and blackened, buffeted from wall to wall. Others, trapped behind buckled doors, suffered the hell of smoke and intense heat until firemen got to them. The injured were counted...
Late one afternoon last week a fire broke out in the sub-basement of the new House Office Building in Washington. Smoke filled the building, sent at least five U.S. Representatives clambering out of windows and down firemen's ladders. If most of the House members had not already declared themselves on vacation, there might have been some Congressional casualties (two firemen were hurt, a dozen suffered from smoke...
...Line. In Albany, the New York State Office of Civilian Protection, anticipating the complete disbanding of 22,000 auxiliary firemen, barred them from further rides on fire engines and slides on stationhouse brass poles...