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...Collections Alfred H. Barr Jr. led trapped museum staffers from the fifth floor to an adjacent brownstone roof. Other museum staff members led 500 visitors to the museum's rooftop restaurant or down the fire stairs. The fire's human toll: 30 firemen and visitors injured, one workman dead. Mute evidence of how bad the result might have been were the smudged, clawing finger marks left on a wall by Electrician Ruben Geller, 55, before he collapsed and died face down in 6 inches of water on the second floor...
...handling and cutting solid shapes. Nivola was born 46 years ago in a Sardinian village, and early apprenticed as a mason. He graduated from masonry to ornamental stucco work, and eventually won a scholarship to Milan's Art Institute. But he says he learned more as a skilled workman than as an art student...
...When the result was finally settled, the excited crowd burst through the enclosure and carried Workman, the hero of the day, to his quarters...
...Workman's Victories
...meet itself, Workman, who now went under the moniker of the Reverend W. H. Workman, added two more victories to his collection, setting a record of 1:55.6 in the half-mile and winning the American-sized distance race, the two-mile. J. S. Spraker of Yale also scored a double win, taking the high jump at a record 6 feet, 1 1/2 inches, and the broad jump. Boal again won the hammer, while O-C won the mile, and H-Y the 100, 440, and hurdles...