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...music consisted of 100 firemen in 100 red shirts with 100 sledgehammers hammering all their might on a hundred anvils and artillery," wrote Painter Thomas Eakins to his sister Fanny about the Boston Jubilee in the summer of 1869. The letter, one of 20 recently given to the Archives of American Art, a part of the Smithsonian complex in Washington, D.C., went on to observe that "Bostonians have music on the brain." Added the proper Philadelphian: "God forbid they should get art there, or they will get some hundred firemen to copy a Jerome or Meissonier a thousand times bigger...
...ended. It is the year of the cop. On TV, at the movies and especially in books, the men in blue are being returned to their once traditional position-just above firemen and below returning war heroes...
...Described as "the best class of nurses graduated from Bellevue Hospital in 100 years," 87 New York City police and firemen were granted diplomas last week. For 2½ years, they did their regular jobs by day and studied at night. Now 40 to 45 years old and with about 20 years' police and fire service behind them, most will soon retire and supplement their pensions by nursing...
...where buses took them into Reykjavik. Hospital patients and the elderly were rescued by small planes and helicopters, which braved intense heat and volcanic ash to land at an airstrip only 200 yds. from the eruption. Within 3½ hours, everyone on Heimaey had been evacuated. About 200 police, firemen and rescue workers stayed behind to salvage what they could of Vestmannaey-jar, the island's only town and Iceland's most important fishing center. Miraculously, there were no casualties...
...last time we marched was in 1889, the centennial of George Washington's first Inauguration," said George Knight, one of the firemen manning the float...