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Page Morton Black
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If you are so young that this jingle means nothing to you — “Chock full o’Nuts is that heavenly coffee, better coffee a millionaire’s money can’t buy”, than you might want to skip this next story from Mamaroneck, NY by Leslie Korngold of The Journal News:
Authorities confirmed yesterday that the woman carried from a burning Premium Point home Saturday was Page Morton Black, the voice behind the Chock full o’Nuts coffee jingle and widow of William Black, founder of Chock full o’Nuts coffee.
Mamaroneck volunteer firefighter Thomas Broderick carried the conscious woman down a ladder from a balcony, where she had sought refuge.
“I never got her name,” Broderick said when asked if he knew whom he had saved. “As soon as I got off the ladder, I went right back in.” It was his first such rescue, he said.
Mamaroneck volunteer Fire Chief David Commender confirmed that it was Black, who is also known for her work with the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation founded by her husband. Black was transported by ambulance to Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester. No one by her name was listed as a patient at the hospital yesterday.
Commender referred questions about Black to a family spokesman, who could not be reached.
The fire was one of three structure fires in town over the weekend.
“It was an unprecedented 18 hours,” Commender said. “But everybody came home fine.”
Both the Premium Point fire and Friday’s Harmon Drive fire were electrical, Commender said. Saturday’s Myrtle Boulevard fire, which left five in need of shelter, started in a gas dryer.
