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...importations are James Hanley's Men In Darkness and Boy, now supplemented by a first novel by Derbyshire Coalminer Boden. Though less savage than Hanley's books, Author Boden's novel treats the same general theme-the brutalizing misery of those on or below the economic ladder's lowest rung...
...clock this morning, six fire engines, led by the chief's car and a giant hook-and-ladder raced to the scene of a fire which was rapidly consuming the seat of a Model A Ford car parked on the corner of Linden and Bow streets. With considerable difficulty, the entire front seat of the automobile was removed, the conflagration was extinguished, and the fire apparatus disappeared into the night...
...Across the Raritan River from Highland Park, N. J., someone tried to break into the nursery of Diane Johnson, seven weeks, whose father is vice president of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings). The marauder leaped from his ladder, exchanged shots with a night watchman, fled. Police soon collared a suspect...
Item. A well-made ladder of three seven-foot sections. Footprints indicated that it had been leaned up against the nursery window, then taken 60 feet away and abandoned...
Forty-five minutes later Chief Carpenter William Huerter, standing waist deep in the turbulent sewer a block below Philip Street, thought he heard faint cries. Then he saw a head bobbing toward him through the darkness. Gripping the bottom of the ladder with one hand, with the other he grabbed a man's limp body just before the filthy current swept into a 75-ft. down-drain. A rope pulled the half-conscious Debo up through the Grand Street manhole, 800 ft. from his starting point. Hospitalized, John Debo told his story...