Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wedding was to be a small one, in a country church, before a congregation of rural neighbors. But not since the Grace Kelly nuptials has there been such an international fooster as last week swirled about a wedding in the Norwegian town of Sogne (pop. 4,000). While 150 newsmen and photographers trampled gardens and graves, while 5,000 curious visitors crowded close about the church in a drenching rain, tall, bespectacled Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of the Governor of New York and scion of one of the world's greatest fortunes, was joined in marriage to blonde, buxom...
...pulsating glow of Los Angeles fills the night sky 75 miles to the west, and the velvety oasis of Palm Springs is only 16 miles away. But Cabazon, Calif, (pop. 855) is a seamy, sun-seared desert slum. A drab procession of beatnik churches, hamburger stands, service stations and motels, Cabazon straddles the confluence of three major highways. The blast-furnace winds of the Colorado Desert roll in through San Gorgonio Pass, and on winter nights the temperature drops to subfreezing levels...
...Battle Ground. Marine Shoup was born in Battle Ground, Ind. (pop. 640), so named because it was there, in 1811, that General William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh's Indians in the battle of Tippecanoe. A farmer's son, he worked his way through nearby DePauw University, graduated ('26) as an "A" student with an ROTC Army commission, switched to the Marines. He married his childhood sweetheart, Zola De Haven (they have two grown children), stood peacetime duty on a dozen posts from Peiping to Iceland. In World War II he saw combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Saipan...
...settled down into a hustling ball club that last week led the Braves by three games and the Dodgers by 2½. The Giants have solid pitching anchored by Sad Sam Jones (15-11), a morose-faced Negro with a crackling curve, and slick Johnny Antonelli (16-6), the pop-off lefty whose feud with newsmen is so bitter that he issues statements only through Manager Bill Rigney (dubbed by the press "John's other voice"). To hit, the Giants have the bull-necked Cepeda and the wondrous McCovey. Out in centerfield, Willie Mays, 28, is beginning to make...
...farm boy who has made good in world finance is a practical, urbane and polished negotiator who knows many of the world's capitals as well as he knows Urbana (pop. 11,000) and Washington, where his father was a Congressman for eight years. As a boy he worked at odd jobs on Capitol Hill, later got degrees in both arts and law from George Washington University, married the daughter of North Carolina's Democratic Representative Homer Lyon...