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...church's dome started burning. Elderly Fireman Thompson scrambled nimbly up an iron ladder to the dome, picked up a hot bomb, hurled it to the ground. Losing his balance, he tumbled down the dome, got wedged against a parapet. Freeing himself, he spotted another incendiary the vestry roof, walked atop a twelve-foot wall carrying a water bucket. The bomb responded to the water treatment by exploding and hurling Fireman Thompson to the concrete pavement below...
Sulfadiazine seems to be "rather non-toxic." It is "very promising at the moment and may prove to be the next step in the sulfonamide ladder." (Last week Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins, top-flight sulfa specialist, announced that this drug will be on the market by early fall. Said he: "I have good reason to believe it will supplant all sulfa drugs now being used...
...service when it was the hangdog of the Navy, and rose with it. Such a one is Rear Admiral Towers. This week, as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, he completed 30 years of Navy flying. He learned to fly in 1911. During his long climb up the Navy ladder to a captaincy, he never pulled his punches, never ceased to fight for the air service and for at least a measure of independence for it, within the Navy...
...simple set made up of an old farmhouse a ladder ascending to heaven, and the lefty castle of Zeus, was designed by Howard Turner '41 and John Holabird '42. It is in keeping with the verse choruses added by William M. Abrahams '41, Garrison Poetry prize winner, and the score composed by Leonard Bernstein '39, a former pupil of Serge Koussevitsky, Boston Symphony conductor, and director of the H.S.U.'s first dramatic production, Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock...
Harvard's Varsity crew stands at the top of the East's rowing ladder, at least for the time being. By virtue of an open-water victory over the previously undefeated Princeton eight in Saturday's Compton Cup Regatta, the Tom Bolles special proved that it is at least the equal of its immediate predecessors and established itself as the leading eight in this part of the country...