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Cambridge police last night towed away two out-of-state College students' cars to launch a new "clean-up" campaign on streets in the Harvard Square area. The cars, which were illegally parked on the sidewalk near the intersection of Mount Auburn and Boylston Streets, can be reclaimed anytime at the Ellery Garage at 418 Broadway, Cambridge...
...narrow roof of a bay window, 30 feet above the street, picked up her blanket-wrapped baby, and climbed out herself. A yelling crowd was gathering in the street below. Mrs. Randall dropped the baby's blanket to three men and a woman on the sidewalk and called to them to hold it up. She dropped her children one by one. The first three landed without a scratch. But the fourth, James, who was eight, was heavy. He slipped from the blanket and hit the sidewalk-safe, but bruised and bawling...
...company said that workmen laying a new sidewalk had gone home, leaving flares to mark the area. A nearby manhole had evidently become filled with gas from a leaking pipe. The flares ignited the gas and blew the manhole cover up into the air. In falling back it struck a pressure-regulating mechanism, forcing the regulator arm into the "open" position. This, said the gas company, introduced excessive gas pressure into customers' homes, where the gas was ignited by various means, such as pilot lights on stoves...
Jimmy lay in state in an orchid casket covered with a rose blanket. There was a canopy from the door of the funeral home to the sidewalk, some fading pink flowers in the yard. "They're dying out," said Mama. "But they're still kinda nice for Jimmy." Mama held off the burial for eight days, but finally gave in this week. Said she: "I ain't in no hurry to rush him into the ground. I kept him out just as long as they...
Blaik's informal talk at Leone's Restaurant in Manhattan-which brought out more cameramen and curious sidewalk neck-craners than usually attend a motion-picture première-was, in many ways, a restrained and gentlemanly performance. The coach, a West Pointer ('20) himself, made no attempt to play on the emotions of his audience. He spoke sadly of the cadets' mistakes, but defended their characters and pleaded that they be allowed to leave the Academy with their reputations unbesmirched...