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...smoke." Two men working nearby dragged the housekeeper out into the yard, her clothes on fire. More explosions rocked the area. A house down the street blew up, then another, and another. People scrambled into the street dodging flying timber and glass. The blasts spread, rolled on like giant popcorn, too fast to count. A boy staggered out of a house, his arm in shreds; an old man quietly went on mowing his lawn near two shattered houses as the first fire engines roared past...
...Women's National Open, with a 72-hole total score of 293; in Atlanta. In third place with a 299: veteran Professional Mildred ("Babe") Zaharias, who only last month helped cure Winner Rawls of a fast-developing slice. ¶ Choate Webster, 26, of Lenapah, Okla. and his horse Popcorn, permanent possession of the $5,000 Sam Jackson silver trophy; at the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup. For the third year in a row, Cowpoke Webster topped the field in steer roping, calf roping, and bulldogging, became the first cowboy to retire one of the most coveted awards of the rodeo circuit...
...Blocking sales of popcorn for home...
...Saturday afternoon, Soldiers Field is often host to several hundred participating athletes, several thousand wandering observers, a dozen or more arbiters, field judges, and referees, a sun, and a popcorn and program man. They all combine to turn the playing fields into sort of an athletic circus, with something that's bound to interest everybody going on, somewhere, all the time...
...Conboy and his family had to make the best of it. And the best of it, as the superintendent saw it, was daughter Gate's romance with the young insurance salesman who had come down from Indianapolis to spend the holidays with the Conboy family. Wife Lib made popcorn balls, daughter Cate decked out the dining room with red-and-green streamers and piled pine cones and cedar boughs in the middle of the table. "Your beau's going to think you've emptied the woodbox on the table," Lib objected. Cate knew better. It would "look...