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...Schooler enterprises now: 1) dances seven nights a week at the Aragon; 2) swing shift dances on Friday and Saturday at Casino Gardens (12:30 to 5 a.m.); 3) Shrine Auditorium dances for Negroes about once a month, whenever a big-name Negro band is available; 4) barn-dancing in the Plantation Ballroom, Culver City...
Blazes. In Tacoma, an electrical bed-shaking apparatus rigged up by Emmanuel Schrader to wake him at the right time started shaking at the wrong time, went on shaking till it short-circuited, burned the house down. In Dandridge, Tenn., lightning struck Hugh Hunter's cow barn, set it afire, traveled along a pipe to a water tank on a nearby hill, ripped the tank open, let out a stream of water that ran down the hill and put out the fire...
...farmer, harvest is a time of rejoicing and backbreaking work. Well before sunup the Liebers were out in the barn, snapping the stanchions on their Holsteins, switching on the 20-year-old milking machine. They paused briefly for a hearty farm breakfast on the cool screened porch. Then the Liebers went out to the oat fields, father on the tractor, 14-year-old Wayne on the binder. They tussled with the Mexican fireweed that had got into the oats, stopped to oil the binder, took a swig from the canvas water jug, worked...
...porch. When son James Love, 21, ran out of the house with a rifle, Clatterbuck disarmed him, shot him in the head, bashed his head with the gunstock for good measure. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot Mrs. Love through the heart, went on out to the barn. There he shot and clubbed the hired man and his wife, left them dead...
...disease. She had bubonic plague-the first case reported in the U.S. since last year when two boys in the same county died of the disease (TIME, Sept. 8, 1941). She had probably caught it from ground-squirrel fleas while playing in the hay in her father's barn...