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Safety First. In Perth, Australia, firemen insisted that they would have been able to control the fire in a department store if only they had been able to break through the fireproof steel door the store had installed...
From a hospital bed in Perth Amboy, bruised and with two broken ribs, Engineer Fitzsimmons talked with the ICC investigators. "I was looking all the time for a yellow light, a yellow light, a yellow light," he chanted with desperate insistency. "That is the custom. One light as you approach. The second light is at the point at which the slow order is effective." Said Fitzsimmons: "Those lights weren't there...
...Black Watch (so called from its somber Scottish tartan and original duties as a Highland guard) was first organized as a regiment in 1739. Families of three counties (Perth, Angus, Fife) supplied most of the first recruits, have continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want...
...Scotland's stylish Perth Hunt Races, Princess Margaret, playing no favorites, appeared with two escorts, both "friendly rivals" for her hand: tweedy, kilted Lord Ogilvy, 24, son of the Earl of Airlie; and the Earl of Dalkeith, 27, heir of the Duke of Buccleuch...
Sound Effects. In Perth Amboy, N.J., police raced to an apartment house to find out why half a dozen tenants' doorbells were all ringing at once, found a young man kissing his girl friend goodnight as she leaned against the bell buttons...