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...reached for his bottle of flashlight powder, to prepare another. As he removed the stopper there was a searing flash, a dull detonation, a blast of choking smoke and flying glass. The crowd of 3,000 milled and trampled at the cry of "bomb!" Photographer Shelton lost a thumb, nearly lost an eye from what every photographer fears-hot embers falling into the powder bottle...
Historic is Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, with one foot in Tennessee and one in Georgia. Here the Union soldiers tumbled the greycoats into retreat in the Battle Above the Clouds; here, last year, shrewd Garnet Carter, owner of Fairyland Club, built the first Tom Thumb golf course, complicating an ordinary 18-hole putting course with ingenious hazards. Last week to Fairyland went putters from many corners of the U. S. to roll balls through hollows, to carom them from banks, down tunnels, over dishpan water hazards and around basket-size sand-traps in the first national Tom Thumb championship...
...Well, Sid . . . after breakfast we'll run down the street and shoot a couple of rounds of Tom Thumb golf. . . . For lunch we're going to the Horwitzes. You remember them. Sadie Horwitz was in your class at school...
...First National Tom Thumb tournament; at Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn...
...bricklayer or mason who does not religiously observe the practice of frequent rest periods. As for the sympathetic audience perhaps the foreman could be drafted into the service and occasionally hold a confidential little tete-a-tete with the more forlorn workers under him. If Tony smashes his thumb under a sledge hammer the foreman could get him to talk about the wife and kiddies and thus get his mind off the injured member, or if Manuel should inadvertently fall asleep between rest periods the foreman should not try to awaken him but should sit down and listen sympathetically...