Word: pyromaniac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show we interviewed a pyromaniac. I asked him why he set fires. He said it gave him a good feeling and that he felt peaceful. He had once been a member of a volunteer Los Angeles Fire Department before getting into trouble, and he came to the show wearing a fireman's cap." Says Coates: "It's amazing how people consent to appear on our show. I can't believe it's anything but exhibitionism in most cases. We don't pay them anything. If they're broke and we feel 15 bucks will...
Once inside the theater, the customer should find it "a place of amusement and relaxation." Smoking? "It is ridiculous that we can smoke in most of the motion-picture theaters and in all of the nightclubs, but one is treated as a pyromaniac when he lights a cigarette in a theater...
Cause for Alarm. In Montreal, a 23-year-old pyromaniac tipped his hand by rushing into the fire station a few minutes before the gong rang, shouting: "Where's the fire...
...easy at first. At his very first formal faculty reception, his garage was set on fire by a pyromaniac. When he had to abolish Yale's traditionally boisterous Derby Day, a mob of students marched on his house, was turned away by a few firm words from the president. And wherever he looked, Yale's awesome operating deficit ($450,000 last year) was there to haunt...
Meanwhile, while police were trying to link the two fires, Gardner E. Lindzey, lecturer in Social Relations, suggested the theory that someone with latent pyromaniac tendencies might have been inspired to set the second fire by the publicity and attention given the first one. He added, however, that this was pure conjecture...