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...flames spread. Larence County Sheriff Dick McGrath ordered all women and children to evacuate the town. Says Game Warden Kenny Scissons, who helped break up traffic jams: "There weren't many sportsmen in that crowd when it came to seeing who was going to get out first." Cars lurched out of town, decked with clothing, rifles, bicycles and skis; the girls from the cribs on Main Street hustled out, carrying their treasured negligees. The wind shifted, driving evacuees onto alternate highways, only to shift capriciously again, pushing the traffic stream back into other roads...
...World War II Japanese concentration camp. The war over, Guterma flowered as a trader, also obtained a bankroll from Philippine and Italian businessmen, which he brought to Florida in 1950 to start a project growing flaxlike ramie fiber. He then moved to Manhattan and with a partner opened McGrath Securities, a firm that often floated stock in his new companies...
...time was there any question about the outcome of this afternoon's romp. The Yardlings tallied three times in the first period, five times in the second, and twice in the third. McGrath scored the lone Huskie goal in the second period...
Spinal Column Right. In Sydney, Australia, Robert McGrath won $938 compensation after he told a district court that, during a military training course, he had injured his back coming to attention...
...curtain raiser, the brand-new Santa Fe Opera Association had selected a surefire heart-throbber-Puccini's Madame Butterfly. The 32-piece orchestra launched into the opening bars as the distant view of the Jemez range faded in the dusk. Tenor William McGrath and Soprano Maria Ferriero soared expertly through Lieut. Pinkerton's and Cio-Cio-San's famous love scene climaxed by her Twilight Has Fallen, and Butterfly's lingering, final-curtain suicide touched off a round of applause that lasted through ten curtain calls. Technically, there were a few first-night bobbles. Gusts...