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...loved to goggle at the late Fiorello La Guardia, a squat fire hydrant of a man who gushed forth sympathy, abuse and ideas on everything under the neon lights. India, without the help of the kind of press that spread the Hat's fame, is learning to pay the same kind of attention to Premier Nehru. He is the nurse and guardian of modern India, orphaned at birth by the death of its father, Gandhi, and the banishment of its mother, the British...
...Rock Ridge Night Rocket, who looks as if he wouldn't last five minutes in an alley fight, lives in style at the Connecticut kennels of his owner, William A. Rockefeller (John D.'s grandnephew). Out at the kennels, which even have an imitation red water hydrant to entertain the Bedlingtons, the grand champion answers to "Timmie." Only two years old next month, he was handled in the ring by Anthony Neary, a square-beamed Bedlington coal miner who helped introduce the breed to U.S. shows 18 years...
Although the engine pumps water from the hydrant it can draw on its reserve tank of 435 gallons if necessary, White said. In either case the pump maintains a pressure of 600 lbs. per square inch at the nozzles...
...Army tents in Buenos Aires' waterfront park, they stared at the glittering skyline, at the bulging grain elevators, and the ships from half the world loading with rich Argentine produce. Patiently they bore the midsummer heat (Paraguay would be hotter), queued for food, washed themselves at one open hydrant, spoke in Plattdeutsch of husbands, sons and brothers not yet given up for lost. Sometimes at night a few gathered around an accordion to sing "Now thank we all our God, with hearts and hands and voices...
Chicago's raucous dailies have never outgrown their Front Page days; last week they romped through the Heirens story like street urchins frolicking at an open hydrant. Scuffling for scoops in a mad, midsummer rough-&-tumble, they whooped it up as the crime news of the century, unloaded extra after extra on willing Chicagoans...