Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge Fire officials, panicked by incessant threats--which they attributed to the Lampoon--to make off with their engine and drive it to New Orleans instead of Kenosha, dispatched their armor-plated apparatus 24 hours ahead of schedule. City Councillor John D. Lynch, however, claimed last night that the six Radcliffe girls abroad caused the early departure...
...Lynch said that mechanic-driver Justin C. McCarthy was accompanied by six Radcliffe girls from the Midwest, "bag and baggage," as he left at 4 a.m. Friday morning. Councillor Edward Crane '35, however, insisted that one of the six was from Lesley College. A spot check last night indicated that it was unlikely that six 'Cliffedwellers drove home with McCarthy...
City Councillor John D. Lynch said yesterday that the pumping engine will be glad to assist in fighting fires "in any city, town, or forest along the way that can come up with one." Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 added that rubber boots and helmets will be carried. "They'll keep their sirens and bells in shape too, just in case," he said...
...Lynch isn't quite sure that the engine will make it all the way to Kenosha on the first try, but he vowed that "we'll send the rescue squad after the old pumper if she breaks down, and another engine to get the kids to Kenosha. It's Wisconsin or bust on this trip...
Equipped with Rocky Mountain-climbing Hall-Scott motors, the engine can travel up to 85 miles per hour, "and you can bet that she'll really steam down that road with all cylinders popping," Lynch forecast. The engine is the third of only three of its kind ever made. Cambridge owns two of the machines, while Memphis has the only other...