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Index
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Saturday Night, November 28, 1942
1 The Rehearsal
2 The Intimate Place
3 No Exit
4 The Eight-Minute Fire
5 Don't Panic
6 The Unalterable Laws
7 It's Not My Job
8 Present at the Creation
9 The Man Who Wasn't There
10 The Bright Side?
11 Indictments-General and Specific
12 Recklessness
13 Ex Post Facto
14 The Verdict
15 Reckonings
16 Fact or Fiction?
Postscript: The 90-Second Fire
Index
T HAD BEGUN WITH the Eighteenth Amendment. According to Jack Beatty's definitive biography of James
The morning papers had hit the stands and screamed out the horror stories of the fire, with the tota
On December 1, 52 victims were buried; on December 2, there were more than 100 funerals for Grove vi
only visited the Grove for an occasional dinner but that she worked as the bookkeeper for another ni
The wounds, together with the dead skin, filth, and detritus, were covered with gauze saturated with
This depressing news pushed Clifford to the edge, according to one commentator. Paul Benzaquin recou
As to which twenty people the Welanskys and Goldfine had killed, Bushnell and Doyle had the dubious
Judge Hurley presided over the selection of the twelve-man jury.*
For instance, during the 1943 grand jury proceedings that led to Police Commissioner Timilty's indic
"a flame about the size of a dinner plate" flashing at the top of the tree. This was the precise loc
Mickey was, in a manner of speaking, finally tracked down by author Stephanie Schorow in 2003.**
$15,000. The fire insurance proceeds-Barney had no liability insurance-totaled little more than $20,
Pepper Russell and Connie Warren were among the chorus girls trapped for a time in the second-floor
another by Paul Benzaquin.**
Lawsuits, perhaps ultimately numbering in the hundreds, began to be filed shortly after the disaster
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