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Living Torch. At the height of the midday shopping hour, Catherine Seydel, a 22-year-old student, picked out a dress she liked and entered a third-floor booth to try it on. Suddenly she heard a thunderous rumble on the floor above her. When she emerged from the booth, she entered a maelstrom of fear and panic. In rapid succession, flames had erupted in at least three locations around the store. Two of the store's 15 full-time firemen-the building had no sprinklers-tried to douse the flames with hand extinguishers, but retreated in the fast...
Shoppers and store workers clawed their way to escalators and exits, blinded by the thickening smoke. Many were trampled in the stampede. Some, like Mme. Seydel, reached windows and managed to escape without serious injury. Others found windows jammed or locked and had to smash through to exterior ledges and balconies; still others clambered to neighboring rooftops. Brussels firemen threaded through the narrow old streets within ten minutes of the first alarm, but helplessly watched many people jump or burn to death before they could raise their ladders or spread their nets. "One man was transformed into a living torch...
...Seydel & Co., Ltd., which published twelve magazines and trade papers...
Besides money, Koppell was also interested in books-not only their contents but why they cost so much. "Sometimes I have ideas," says Koppell. Seydel set up a firm for him to handle his idea-the Deutsche Buck Gemeinschaft, German Book Club. Soon the German Book Club had almost 500,000 permanent subscribers, became the largest book club in the world...
...Morris Fishbein takes indignant and autocratic exception to the publicizing of a speech by Chemist Herman Seydel (TIME, Sept...