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...enrolled in its ranks, an ever increasing number of Harvard volunteers are joining the Cambridge Auxiliary Fire Department. Putting them through their paces every Friday afternoon, Captain George Friel. Massachusetts State Drill Master, and Fire Chief Herman E. Gutheim soon hope to have a group of well-trained reserve firemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 AUXILIARY FIREMEN READY TO STAND BY REGULAR FORCE | 10/14/1942 | See Source »

...event of air raid, Auxiliaries will supplement the regular fire crews in their fight against blazing incendiary bombs. They are not called out only during enemy attacks, however, since volunteer firemen respond to all second alarm fires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 AUXILIARY FIREMEN READY TO STAND BY REGULAR FORCE | 10/14/1942 | See Source »

Later Johnny wrote I'm an Old Cowhand, On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, Jeepers Creepers, Lazy Bones and Skylark. With half the U.S. mumbling his 42nd-Street plain chant in its sleep, Mercer moved on to Hollywood. Blues in the Night, written for a Warner Brothers musical, sold over a million copies. By last week another Mercer opus. Strip Polka (for which the versatile Johnny had written the tune as well as the words), was No. 2 on Variety's list of bestsellers. Its homely refrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mercerized Music | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Toward evening we arrive at a glass factory. The entrance is heavily guarded. Severely examining our documents, they remind me of Red Guards in 1918. Inside we see the director, firemen, watchmen and members of the factory workers' guard. Though machine tools have been evacuated, the workshop remains; guarding it are elderly men who have given their best years to the factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FROM STALINGRAD'S RUINS | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...every morning; famed Leon & Eddie's packs them in with come-ons like pretty chorines to dance with tired businessmen. The Hotel Astor roof has capacity crowds nightly and bar business is 65% above last year. In Broadway's flashy, pink-satined Latin Quarter, soldiers and visiting firemen ogle a sexy two-hour show, fork over a smacking $25,000 weekly for the look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Cash in the Night | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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