Word: sarno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They panicked, ran screaming to the windows, fighting, kicking, pummeling. Some jumped 25 ft. down to concrete pavements below, limped or crawled away with twisted limbs. Some hung on, waited for the firemen. Fourth-Grader Ronnie Sarno, 10, fought to a window, called out to his nine-year-old sister Joanne: "I'm going to jump! Do you want to come?" As he eased himself over the sill, he heard her scream: "Don't jump, Ron! Don't jump!" And never saw her alive again...
...Anne's, scores of parents went on to the county morgue, a dark building surrounded by police ambulances with red lights flashing. There bodies were sectioned off beneath white sheets by aproximate age and sex. "Maffiola?" a hite-coated attendant called out. "The Maffiola family?" Another attendant died: "Sarno? Anyone here for Sarno?" A deputy coroner told a registrar: "Better leave room for 100 names." The names: Michele Altobell . . . Karen Baroni . . . David Biscan . . . Philip Tampone . . . Christine Vitacco . . . Wayne Wisz. The toll: 91 dead-53 girls, 35 boys, three nuns-and more than 100 injured...
...have a young team and our hopes will ride with Macleod." Cleverly will start Bill Formosi behind the plate, Nat Koppel at first, Jackie Murphy at second, Ed Aseley at third, and Don Cobleigh at short. Lon Dempsey, football captain Ken Hagerstrom, and John Sarno will play in the outfield...
...almost nobody noticed-or remembered-that Sarno ("I always was a pretty good ballplayer") was not the only man who ran to the boy's rescue. Almost nobody, that is, but a New York Journal-American advertising man who happened to be riding on South Street at the time. He was sure he saw a bus driver, standing under the window beside Sarno, actually catch the child...
...time the Journal-American found the bus driver, one Morris Brower, a day had passed and Sarno was the accepted hero. When questioned, however, Brower said that he had caught the child, who rolled out of his arms, hit the ground and was then scooped up by Rescuer Sarno. Brower announced that he had witnesses to prove his story. Sarno said he had witnesses...