While firemen in heavy boots clumped around his study and used fire extinguishers to good advantage,
Philip Knapp '37 slept peacefully.
Knapp's room mate, William S. Baxter '37 returned to his room in Leverett House at 3:45 o'clock yesterday morning and opened the door to be met by heavy black smoke. He immediately turned in an alarm, resulting in the arrival of Cambridge's familiar ladder truck and two fire engines. The "smoke eaters" promptly threw an upholstered chair which had been ignited by a cigarette out the window.
Ten minutes later, pajama-clad Knapp padded into the confusion of his study and mumbled "Gor"!
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Sulloway, Weinberger, Ulin, Earle Mayne Appointed to 1938 Council
