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Vacationing at Manasquan, N. J., Assistant Fire Chief John Black of North Arlington was in swimming when a fire alarm sounded. In his bathing suit Chief Black dashed to the fire, climbed a ladder, entered the blazing building barefoot. Few minutes later he was carried out suffering from cuts and hotfoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...white creature nestling in the cradle on the shore--would slip down the rails that led into the water and slide over to have her own poles set in and made ready to spread her sails to the wind. Now he could see a man climbing out of a ladder, propped up against his boat, and take the ladder away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

Precariously perched on the top of the House ladder at the close of the winter sports competition, the bellboys, with a grand total of 736 1/2 points to date, are leading Kirkland by a slim five point margin, Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL LEADS LEAGUE IN HOUSE SPORTS RACE | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

...precarious living selling washing machines and the like, finally in 1925, when War hysteria had subsided, went to University of Oklahoma as professor of finance. But the incident rankled in the mind of Pierce Butler's young law clerk, Elmer Benson, as he marched up the political ladder. It still rankled when, 20 years later, the law clerk had become the Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota. Last week came the day he had been waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Monument to Freedom | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

TIME'S editors, bemused by gout, evidently have never leapt walls. In your issue of Jan. 17 you show a picture of Britain's gaitered Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "leaping" a stone wall. Look more closely. There is a ladder in the right-hand corner. Mr. Chamberlain has climbed up the ladder and is now gingerly stepping off. He is going to land stiff-legged at that. He will probably wryly agree that a leap should be goaty, not gouty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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