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...these parts we were raised on Saturday afternoon movies and popcorn, gats and lynchings, but the kiddie population hasn't rubbed anyone out for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Progeny for President | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...buffoonery. The legend lives and grows in a typhoon of frantic activity that sweeps everything before it - including Carter himself. This pays off for both Carter and Fort Worth. But his old friends know a deeper reason. Whether he is giving away hats, tracts of land, scholarships, or popcorn & peanuts at his 900-acre Shady Oak Farm, his friends see a poor boy acting out his dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...movie would be a masterpiece, for De Mille and the circus are fated for each other. By sprinkling his footage with shots of circus audiences munching all the tidbits of the refreshment stand, De Mille tightens his claim to another distinction: Greatest Show is likely to sell more popcorn than any movie ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Brighton police were still baffled yesterday by the disappearance of ten cases of Coca-Cola, 92 bottles of assorted sodas, 87 cans of chocolate syrup, and 37 boxes of popcorn from a concessionaire's booth in the Stadium after the Brown game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Find Three Additional Thefts | 11/20/1951 | See Source »

...Theatre Network Television, which promotes the broadcasts, sent over the Princeton-Navy game. The management of the Pilgrim apparently didn't have much better luck than local proprietors of stadiums in drawing a crowd for a ball game. Most of the audience, which sat sullenly in its seats nibbling popcorn, seemed to favor Princeton. A good many were Nassau expatriates doing graduate work here. Sailors attended in scattered clumps and watched the proceedings with mixed feelings. Service pride demanded that they cheer for their future officers most of the time but when things went awry for Annapolis they weren...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/9/1951 | See Source »

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