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When a Manhattan merchant saw Christopher dressed up, he told the Geissmanns they ought to go into business. Last spring, they formed Merry Hull, Inc. (adapted from Mrs. Geissmann's mother's maiden name), installed Bob as president, Gladys as vice president. They raised $170,000 in capital from their savings and friends' subscriptions, got another $80,000 from enthusiastic citizens of Chambersburg, Pa., where the Geissmanns rented two small plants. Last week "Merry Mites," the company's wardrobe of practical clothes for boys up to four, went on sale in five top department stores...
...27th installment of his memoirs in the New York Times, Cordell Hull told a homy story about his wartime (1943) flight to Moscow. It was the first time he had ever been in an airplane, and he was being shown the emergency escape panels in case the craft had to come down on water. Related Hull: "The fact of several exits reminded me of the old gentleman in Tennessee who kept three cats. A friend, visiting him one day, noticed three large semicircular holes cut in ... the front door. 'What are those for?' he asked...
...morning last week Isaac Hull, fisherman turned boardinghouse keeper, was up & about. It was bitter cold (6°), and he needed an early start at his fire-making. His Hull Home, in downtown St. John's, was jampacked with 70 boarders, most of them government-supported poor, aged or infirm, awaiting admission to public institutions. Proprietor Hull lit the kitchen oil range, then bustled next door to light another in the annex. By the time he was ready to leave the annex, the 15-year-old main building, where he had started the first fire, was doomed. Flames, apparently...
...aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...
...charred bodies, some of them piled near windows, others still in bed. In all, 33 had died. It was the worst fire in Newfoundland since the K. of C. Hostel blaze claimed 100 in 1942. Two years after the Fire Department and City Council had recommended fire escapes for Hull Home, the city began an inquiry to find out why they had never been installed...