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...finest writers alive. Publication of Caught and Concluding on the same day makes the point perfectly. Caught, a novel about fire fighters in London in the first years of the war, is mannered and artificial, and dull enough to have been written by a tired fireman. Concluding, a story about a government school for young girls, shows Green near his best...
...head protruded. Soon afterward the train pulled to a screaming stop in the middle of the desert. Wobbling perceptibly, Engine-driver Fred Leahy dismounted, wove away to the front of his locomotive and lay down on the tracks, his neck on one gleaming rail, his ankles on the other. Fireman George Swetman lightened the pause by trying to play a tune on the engine whistle...
Engineer Leahy last week followed Conductor Moore to the stand in a Port Pirie police court and explained his rocketing ride. He had failed to stop at Deakin, he said, for the simple reason that he had fallen asleep at the controls and the fireman had failed to wake him. The business of lying on the tracks was merely a routine inspection of the locomotive's underpinnings. As for the blondes, they were the fireman's guests, not his. "Girls," snarled Engineer Leahy, sounding now as though he meant it, "don't interest...
...There is a danger to life and limb in such excited mob action--for instance, the fireman who had his eye cut by a thrown light bulb Sunday...
...fireman, Herbert F. Shea, was cut in the eye by pieces of a light bulb thrown at the windshield of his fire truck. He was taken to Cambridge City Hospital Sunday night, treated, and sent home. The Fire Department reported yesteday that Shea was back on the job with his eye bandaged, and that he was in no danger of losing his sight...