Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Although official estimates are still unavailable, one preliminary figure puts the damage at over $30,000. The fire, which poured huge clouds of smoke over the Yard, completely gutted the Poets' Theater, Inc., and brought extensive damage to the Paul Schuster Art Gallery. Also destroyed John D. Hughes, Painters; Hayden...
Crowds of four to five hundred braved the 15 degree whether as they swarmed around the fire area. Footing as slippery and treacherous with ice forming quickly on the street. At one point in the morning the crowd was doused jets of water when firemen fought the blaze from inside...
Large quantities of paint in the building caused special problems for the men. Intense heat and toxic fumes made work inside the building difficult. It took nearly two and half hours to get the fire under control. Two firemen, Ralph H. Underwood and Gerald M. Sears, suffered injuries. Underwood had...
Alan Fox, manager of the Poets' Theater, said that although "the whole place is gone, we are not going to quit. We have survived some pretty rough tragedies." The Theater lost all of its ing equipment, props, and records. The estimated the theater group's losses about $2,000, all...
Stevenson's decision to wait until Kennedy selects his Secretary of State before accepting the post is "very sensible," Mrs. Roosevelt declared. Successful utilization of the U.N. requires close rapport between the State Department and the manent American delegation.