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...allegedly owing on last year's income. Sean, his two-and-a-half-year-old son, got his foot caught in a drainpipe in Newport (where he was winding up the summer with his mother, Lili Damita), had to be sawed free by police and firemen...
...Visiting Firemen. Near Sprague, Wash., the Ritzville fire department, 20 miles out of its way and lost on a back road, encountered the Sprague fire department, lodged in a mudhole...
Sleepy Report. In Oakland, Calif., Mr. & Mrs. Leo W. Gero were reported to have slept while the rug and floor blazed under their bed, slept while the fire apparatus roared up to the house, while the firemen piled in, while they fought the blaze and put it out, and left, carefully locking the door behind them...
...effects of happiness on Manhattan were catastrophic. Cops and firemen gaily abandoned night sticks and fire hoses to be pursued by blonde maenads. As the proletariat began to giggle and desert its jobs, subways, trains, busses, elevateds and elevators stopped running. Lights blinked and went out. Since gravity was found to be almost as essential to the flow of food as to the flow of water, famine threatened...
...every third one. The mice ate all the unpoisoned crackers, left all the others. Lief gathered them up despondently, fell to munching, soon went to the hospital. In New Britain, Conn., Eleanor Borg went up a tree after a stranded kitten, which presently scurried down by itself. It required firemen with ladders to get Eleanor down...