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Five fire engines were summoned yesterday to extinguish a raging fire in the Wigglesworth Hall room of Robert W. Lerner '43. The conflagration, the biggest the Yard has seen in over a dozen years, completely destroyed one of the most expensive Freshman suites, with an estimated damage of over...
...fire started at about 11:45 o'clock, while Lerner was attending a class. By the time the engines arrived, the smoke was pouring out the windows and around the eaves. Ladders were quickly raised, and the firemen rushed up to the room and shoveled burning debris out the window...
...cause of the blaze has not been definitely established, but evidence seems to point to a carelessly extinguished cigarette. "I did smoke a cigarette in the morning," admitted Lerner, "but I can't remember what I did with it." Deputy Chief Church, of the Cambridge Fire Department, explained that the fire had probably been smouldering in a chair for about three-quarters of an hour before it was discovered...
...presidential campaign will be like an ice-berg, nine-tenths underground," Max Lerner, professor of Political Science at Williams College, predicted in a talk last night in the Adams House dining hall after analyzing the "new wave of reaction and intolerance flooding the country...
...Lerner asserted that anti-Semitism and anti-alienism had reached a new pitch of intensity that probably could not be calmed by former methods of reason and intelligent appeal...