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...Rescue. Before fire trucks sirened to the scene from two miles away, the fire had shot from a first-floor room up a dumb waiter, was licking through all three floors. In rows of flame-lit windows, terrorstricken women shrieked and pounded at wire mesh and steel bars which imprisoned them in cell-like rooms; before the firemen had arrived many had fallen silent and disappeared in the flames. Mrs. Anna Neal, a 55-year-old nurse on duty in the ward, led some of her patients into the night, rushed back into the fire to rescue more...
What Will the Waiter Think? Psychiatrist Seliger does not favor prohibition, because he thinks it is against human nature, and besides, it gets no results. But he would like to see "a concerted program of education against heavy social drinking, beamed at the reading and listening public-including the 'teen and twenty-agers-and supported as a public health service...
Perhaps, he says, "through various opinion-molding media, we could change the prevailing social attitude about heavy social drinking, and especially about daytime drinking, so that instead of its being considered obligatory, or 'smart,' even' the waiter would look astonished and disapproving...
Died. Luther ("Bill," "Bojangles") Robinson, 71, longtime master of old-school (non-acrobatic) tap dancers; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Grandson of a slave, Robinson ran away from his home-town Richmond at eight, shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely...
TOMORROW Football In the Yale Bowl: Varsity-Yale1:45 p.m. TODAY Football On Anthony Thompson Field (Armoryville): Freshmen-Yale 2 p.m. On DeWitt Cuyler Field: Junior Varsity-Yale Soccer 2 p.m. Near Coxe Cage: Varsity-Yale 2 p.m. Freshmen-Yale 2 p.m. House Football On Waiter Camp Field: Eliot-Berkeley (championship) Field 2 2.45 p.m. Winthrop-Davenport, Field 1 2 p.m. Dudley-Trumbull, Field 3 2 p.m. Lowell-Pierson, Field 4 2 p.m. Kirkland-Calhoun, Field 5 2 p.m. Leverett-Dwight, Field 1 3:15 p.m. Dunster-Branford, Field 3 3:15 p.m. Adams-Saybrook, Field...