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...pizza-stand proprietor gets his coffeepot going, and chilled citizens begin to line up, hoping to get a grip on the morning. A camper rolls into the parking area, and within 30 seconds after it stops, four men of assorted ages have jumped out, driven two stakes into the grass and started pitching horseshoes. People drag aluminum chairs and cases of beer out of the backs of their cars and lug them over to the lawn that faces the bandstand. Encouraging smells begin to drift from the beef barbecue pit. The day's first Frisbee frizzes across the gray...
...Rutland contest is the descendant of a smaller and less volcanic gathering held each summer for eight years in Newfane, Vt., until it outgrew the five-acre tract owned by the father of Promoter Bill Morse. Morse, 29, a quick-talking flea market proprietor who wears a Stetson, a fine clawhammer coat and jeans, says he moved his contest to the state fairgrounds here when neighbors began muttering about the mobs. Now he was wondering whether crowds and contestants would show up in sufficient numbers on this stern October Saturday, when ski trails visible on Killington Mountain a few miles...
...since that mean Charles O. Finley upstaged those marvelous Oakland A's of the early '70s had a Series been so taken over by a proprietor without propriety. With Jackson out (strained calf muscle) and New York winning, the first two games in Yankee Stadium were artistic occasions for appreciating the resident third baseman, Graig Nettles. Before Game 3 in Los Angeles, however, Nettles' left thumb began swelling from a slight fracture, and he sat out the next three games. Other small earthquakes awaited the Yankees in L.A., including real ones. "What were you doing during...
...entered with a pistol in his holster. He was the chief bodyguard of the dictator of Guatemala. Looking around the room he saw Jane and said, 'That's the one I want.' The students tried to protest. 'This is a tourist,' they said. The proprietor offered him one of the other women. 'No,' he said, 'I want that one.' The prostitutes sneaked Jane into a back room and got her out of a window into an empty lot behind the brothel. She would say nothing to Paul about what had happened...
...freezer in 1846, although she neglected to patent the machine. Robert M. Green, a Philadelphia visionary, gave the world the ice-cream soda in 1874. The ice-cream cone was the hit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 in St. Louis. Christian Nelson, an Iowa candy-store proprietor, thought up chocolate-covered ice cream in 1919 but got nowhere until Russell Stover, an ice-cream company superintendent, searched the firmament and invented the name Eskimo Pie. By 1922 the pair were selling a million pies a day. A Youngstown, Ohio, confectioner named Harry Burt refined the idea by developing...