Word: powderhorns
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...clothing named Guido di Maggio ("Hey, di Maggio, let's play some ball"); di Mag's girl, a progressive schoolteacher who starts the whole town talking with her sex talks to second graders; a real-estate shyster who turns swampland into pay dirt by renaming it "Powderhorn Hill"; a toothsome teen-age tidbit named Comfort Goodpasture whose Puritan blood is brought to a boil by a guitar-strumming Army corporal from Altus, Okla...
...Minneapolis, the night of the Fourth, Joe Ball shot the works. In Powderhorn Park he spoke to a crowd of 50,000 men, women & children who had come to see and hear the fireworks...
...music by the Gordon String Quartet. Twenty-five amateur choruses performed and an orchestra came from San Antonio, Tex., the players all in their early teens. Delegates who took a few hours off to buy presents to take home heard music in the department stores. When they walked in Powderhorn Park they heard community singing for which an all-banjo orchestra plunked vigorous accompaniments...
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