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...jump!" a *He sold it three years later, stayed on after that as a non-paying guest. woman appeared at a seventh-floor window, threw out her small son, her smaller daughter, then jumped herself. Another woman leaped feet first (as they all did), hit a fireman who was carrying a woman down a ladder and swept them with her to the street. The craze spread, and body after body hurtled down, hitting with dull, leaden sounds. As they fell, slowly it seemed, the jumpers trailed long, long cries...
Deflation. In Teaneck, N.J., homeless Fireman Fred Fadar heard the town council would sell a six-room house if the buyer would move it, bid $1 just for the laugh, learned the house...
...second contest Harper was called on to play fireman after the Crimson had shoved five runs across in a hectic first inning uprising. Harper pitched the last eight frames, allowing no runs and only two singles while striking out eight Crimson batters...
...moment he hit the big leagues, his Red Sox teammates labeled him "meat-head." He promptly missed a fly ball, got even by throwing it into the stands. In 1940, Williams announced that he would rather be a fireman than a big-leaguer. That prompted the artful Jimmy Dykes of the White Sox to distribute papier-mache fire helmets to his players whenever Williams came to bat. The only thing anyone liked about him was his hitting-a terrific .406 in 1941. Then he joined the Navy, eventually became a Marine flyer...
...proclaimed. In the Hall of the She-Wolf sat the highest court's 13 justices, Premier de Gasperi and his cabinet, the chiefs of the armed forces and other notables, including a wisp-bearded Garibaldi Army veteran with medals of 1870 gleaming on his shirt of fireman's red. (The Sartorio mural, Italy Unified, had been shrouded: it showed republican Garibaldi shaking hands with Umberto's great-grandfather.) Because some 200,000 votes-which could not possibly alter the people's verdict-were still uncounted, the court adjourned without deciding who was legally chief of state...