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...chicken and green peas that the Radcliffe girl ate on the steps of Cambridge's longest ladder wagon after the fire in the Georgian Cafeteria on Wednesday were overshadowed in importance last night. A uniformed fireman knocked at the door of the Hasty Pudding clubhouse and wanted to know when "Fireman, Save My Child" would first he played in Cambridge. He was told. He then confided the suspicion that lay behind such fraternality...
...firemen, who fought the blaze above the coffee urns with heads uncovered, came out to find their leather headgear gone. The trail led plausibly enough one block over to the Pudding Clubhouse on Holyoke street. No fire hats could be found there at a late hour last night. The fireman was told that the period of the play was 1850. He went away from there...
...play, "Fireman, Save My Child", which burlesques the rivalry which used to exist between the old volunteer fire companies, W. W. Ryan '30 will play the role of the "heroine", while F. R. G. Giddens '30 will take a comic part...
...Fireman, Save my Child" is to be the title of the annual play of the Hasty Pudding Club, it was announced last night by Kendrick Kerns '30 in charge of arrangements for the show. The play, written by G. A. Weller '29, former editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, satirically depicts life in Cambridge about 1750. At that time there existed a strong sense of rivalry between different fire companies as to which would first arrive on the scene of the fire, when one occurred, and enjoy the privilege of extinguishing it. This rivalry was particularly keen between the well-known...
Within 24 hours after the execution of José de Leon Toral, a dynamite bomb was exploded under the locomotive of the special train of Mexico's provisional president, Sefior Emilio Portes Gil (TIME, Dec. 10). The engine was derailed, one fireman was killed, and two coaches left the track. President Portes Gil descended unhurt from his salon car, walked forward to the locomotive, shrugged his broad shoulders and remarked: "The revolution star is in luck...