Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Topsham, Me. (pop. 3,500), Colonel Robert F. Carter, a 60-year-old West Pointer, is busily pursuing a hobby that reaches into the past and the future and extends around the world. Colonel Carter's determination is to read every article that has ever appeared in TIME. In the past three years, the retired Army officer has collected all but about 70 of the 1,887 issues TIME has published since it began on March...
Business Governor. Chapel Hill beckoned early to Luther Hodges, born March 9, 1898, eighth among nine children of a poor tenant farmer who gave up and moved into the textile-mill town of Spray (1950 pop. 5,500). Though Luther quit seventh grade to work in the mill (50? a day), he later saved $62.50, at 17 went off to work his way through Chapel Hill (class of '19). After college, he resolved to go back home and make his mark in the mills, in 17 years worked his way up to production manager of Marshall Field...
...raise the sunken arms. As they brought up the boat, Tito talked enthusiastically of his plan to attack a National Guard post. Mary Ann headed for port, Elaine took the outboard in tow, and Tito headed for a secluded island to finish the arms transfer undisturbed except for the pop of Dame Margot's flashbulbs. But the spoilsport crew of the Mary Ann, reaching port, spilled the whole plan to the National Guard...
...wags were tailing the top dog. As a triple, the Stooges clowned their way through a seemingly endless series of quickie flickies-most of them on a par with the early Punchdrunk, which told of a waiter, a prizefighter at heart, who wrecked the joint every time he heard Pop Goes the Weasel...
...kids' enthusiasm has opened up the clubs to the Stooges, and the kids to the clubs. Most of the spots played by the Stooges have afternoon shows for children; one club offered the act at a junior charge of $1.50 (covering a sandwich and a bottle of pop), and in Philadelphia, marvels Moe, "people paid $3.75 for little kids' dinners so they could see us. Imagine nightclub matinees for kids...