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...over a decade the fumbling artistic strivings of housewives, dentists, firemen, butlers, patent attorneys, and taxi drivers have provided a field day for professional newspaper humorists. In last week's exhibition there was a little section of 25 pictures, just as inept, just as badly painted as the rest, that caused no jeers. They were the work of eight convicts at New York's bleak Clinton Prison, Dannemora...
...blaze was of unknown origin and the firemen made short work of putting it out. There was no damage to the building...
...Canton, China, the local fire department scheduled an exhibition leap from a burning three-story platform. With 10,000 spectators watching, two Chinese firemen climbed to the top. Someone set fire to the gasoline-soaked frame before the life net was ready. When the flames reached the top, the two firemen jumped to their death...
Before this exhibition, however, several engineers from the Peter Pirsch Co of Kenosha, Wisconsin, are instructing the firemen how to operate this intricate machine. Yesterday morning it was sent out on a trial run, and on its return to the station, the men from Kenosha demonstrated how it could be spun in a 26 foot radius...
...York contains more Irish Catholics than any other city in the world. Its five archbishops have been named Hughes, McCloskey, Corrigan, Farley, Hayes. Its handsome Gothic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue is dedicated to St. Patrick. Of the city's priests, policemen, bartenders, politicians, firemen, judges and streetcar conductors, a goodly number are named for the Scottish-born saint who brought Christianity to Ireland. Thus there was plenty of cause for pious feeling last week when the authentic spiritual successor of St. Patrick-Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland-visited New York...