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'Cliffe Girl Quells Fire With Hands
A fire at Radcliffe's Whitman Hall was discovered and extinguished by Sylvia Nuser '49 at 9:50 p.m. Saturday night.
Miss Nuser spied the blaze in a pantry waste-basket, which was filled with used napkins. She smothered the fire with her bare hands, suffering burns, while two other girls whisked away piles of new napkins standing nearby. The cause of the fire is still not known.
The heroine was praised by Housemother Henrietta Sebring in a speech at dinner last night.
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