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...down as the flames soared up in 50-ft. tongues. Baldwin started back-there were 47 people inside-and was held back by the gathering crowd. Firemen drove a fire engine through a wooden fence, attacked the fire. Then the hero of the crash-a 38-year-old New Yorker named Edward McGrath-arrived. He grabbed an ax, waded into the furnace heat, chopped a hole in the broken plane's duraluminum skin. He squeezed in & out seven times and hauled out seven people before he collapsed. Then firemen rescued three more...
Starting with emaciated pocketbooks and a large group of enthusiastic musicians in September, the band played and spelled its way through nine football games to an unofficial "best in the business" plaudit from the New Yorker in November. Statistically-minded members noted gleefully at the conclusion of the season that the red-coated marchers had formed 208 letters to a meagre 28 for the opposition musicians...
...Lichfield, Pacific Style," fails. McGovern's simple story of injustice and violence is handled without fanfare. Geist's tedious account of Army prison conditions in the South Pacific vacillates between reportorial observation and personal history--a report done in the spirit, if not in the manner of the "New Yorker...
...Punch, the cartoons were merely illustrations of elaborate written jokes. Today's Punch-like its U.S. contemporary, the New Yorker-strives for the drawing that is comic in itself, trims its captions to a single punch line. Punch frequently gets deep into politics and economics, with no intent to be funny. It also carries serious reviews of the movies, theater and books-but with a difference. Says Editor Knox: "The New Yorker is so scornful of everything. Nothing is quite good enough in their eyes. We try not to be too bitter or unkind...
...some Princeton Freshmen like these pajamas emblazoned with Donald Ducks."--from an ad in the New Yorker...