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Those few benighted souls who were still in Cambridge at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon were startled by the steady drone of what sounded like a mammoth fire siren, a signal for an air raid, or perhaps even a recruiting call for the next war. Puzzled students wondered where the fire was and how big it must have been to evoke such an awe-inspiring noise.
But no great catastrophe was in the offing, after all. At 6:30, when the blast had been going forty-five minutes, a phone call to the Cambridge police evoked the information that the noise "was just some engineer's locomotive whistle over in Brighton that's got stuck." Promptly at 6:32 o'clock it apologetically stopped.
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