Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank of New York City's East River to televise a swimming pool. When the engineer saw fire break out in an abandoned U. S. Army barracks on Wards Island, he swung his camera around, caught and sent through the air television's first fire. Flames, smoke, a fireboat's futile efforts to save the building all appeared on the screen, were seen in the studios by television's first buffs...
...fallen on the table where he was sitting instead of on the floor, the cool clean air would never have reached his poisoned lungs. Then came his fight with fumes and cold. Cold of eighty below zero which he must endure or else run the risk of the deadly smoke from the stove. Yet he never told Little America of his plight for fear they might lose their lives trying to save him during the winter storms...
...befits the No. 1 idol of U. S. youth, Autry does not drink or smoke. He lives with his pretty wife on a ten-acre "ranch" in San Fernando Valley, where he stables "Champion" and his five other less famed horses. Last year sales of Autry's phonograph records equaled those of Bing Crosby's. A manufacturer who set up a line of toy revolvers modeled on the one he carries sold 100,000 in three weeks...
Jittery as a terrier, he cannot sit still, swivels between two desks, hops up to flip some papers, peers through a cloud of smoke with his one good eye (he has been blind in his right eye since birth). Likable and expansive, he talks incessantly, wrinkles his nose when amused, which is often. Though his job is listening to the public, he is a poor listener personally. Visitors have a hard time getting a word in edgewise but rarely mind because the Weaver conversation is equipped not only with a store of fresh ideas but with an incredible volume...
...passengers, jarred by an explosion that rippled the floor of the D deck dining room, danced, watched a cinema show, slept while the crew fought ten hours to quell the fire in the cellulose, paper and Christmas-toy cargo. Only casualties were fire fighters who got a taste of smoke; safe in the after hold were 46 tanks of Australian fighting fish, 5,000 Harz Mountain canaries...