Word: pyromaniacs
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Cause for Alarm. In Montreal, a 23-year-old pyromaniac tipped his hand by rushing into the fire station a few minutes before the gong rang, shouting: "Where's the fire...
...easy at first. At his very first formal faculty reception, his garage was set on fire by a pyromaniac. When he had to abolish Yale's traditionally boisterous Derby Day, a mob of students marched on his house, was turned away by a few firm words from the president. And wherever he looked, Yale's awesome operating deficit ($450,000 last year) was there to haunt...
Meanwhile, while police were trying to link the two fires, Gardner E. Lindzey, lecturer in Social Relations, suggested the theory that someone with latent pyromaniac tendencies might have been inspired to set the second fire by the publicity and attention given the first one. He added, however, that this was pure conjecture...
...pyromaniac may be loose in the Harvard Square area, Fire Chief John F. Collins revealed last night...
...epic in the sense that the garish extravagances of DeMille were called epics. Its effects are not won by means of pyromaniac mobs that made D. W. Griffith a god in Hollywood. Rather "Cavalcade" is a drama of family patriotism; and because the finer qualities of an Englishman are the finer qualities of an American it commands the emotions and sympathy of the American audience...