Firemen probe through debris following a three-alarm fire which destroyed offices of two Tufts University deans in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

View toward Custom House from Beacon Street

Tropical storm Debbie, steadily growing in intensity, 9/29 sent gale winds lashing the Mississippi and Alabama coasts and the weather bureau ordered a hurricane watch from Louisiana to Florida. The crew of a tug sinking in the northern Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana Coast abandoned the vessel as Debbie churned closer and closer to them.

A horse and plow were used by city workers to widen the paths on Boston Common today.

Hockey player's children