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...actually happened) of getting married under floodlights at the home plate of a Houston ball park, about his registering at three St. Louis hotels at one time so that he could flop when he liked. On sizzling hot days he would build a bonfire in front of the Cardinal dugout, wrap himself in a blanket, do an Indian war dance. One night, out of ennui in a Philadelphia hotel, he and two teammates, dressed in painters' overalls, dragged ladders and paint cans into a crowded ban quet hall, began to redecorate the walls...
...startling contrast to the languishing Lampy nine, a confident but sober Crimson squad spend last night in a final skull session before the great blackboard in the Plympton Street dugout...
...eight-ounce charge touched off from a safe distance with an electric detonator shattered a 40-foot telephone pole, blew chunks of kindling 150 feet into the air. When Inventor Barlow put five pounds in a dugout, set it off, earth and sand roared up to the sky, and the "whip-back" of air rushing into the vacuum created by the heat of the blast sucked out the sides of a shack 25 feet away. The force of the explosion was felt 1,000 feet away. The new test will show Army and Navy men whether a bigger charge...
Right after supper, in a dugout, "we heard the sharp crack of a rifle and then the pop of two grenades on the east side of the hill...
Other dispatches of last week told of a French night patrol which captured three Germans. When they got back to a French dugout and could see, Captive Kurt Stöpel, German cyclist, recognized Captor Robert Oubron, French cyclist, against whom he had often pedaled in international races...