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Windfall. In Harbor Springs, Mich., the chamber of commerce, pushing the town as a pollen-free haven for hay-fever sufferers, offered schoolboys a dime a pound for any ragweed they could find, backed down hurriedly when youngsters hauled in a 1,400-lb. wagonload...
...Mathias Story (Allied Artists), in purely cinematic terms, is nothing more than a wagonload of newsreel clips hitched to a star. But that hardly matters, since track-and-field Wizard Bob Mathias (TIME, July 21, 1952) is a dazzling star to watch. He plays himself in this modest picture, which straightforwardly takes him from his high-school days in Tulare, Calif, to the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where, at 17, he surprised the world by winning the decathlon; then on to Stanford, where he played some first-class football; and finally to the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, where...
Before the last wagonload of brawling students left the Square, police had thwarted an attempt to immobilize a Lochmere-bound trolley and the Cambridge fire department had answered one false alarm in the riot area...
...sleepy village of Manchester, Vt. (pop. 325) sat up and took notice last week. White-haired ladies from porch rockers of the Equinox House, straw-hatted farmers, Green Mountain tourists and artists by the station-wagonload jammed into the red brick gymnasium where the Southern Vermont Artists' Association was staging its 20th annual show...
...headed the company for 14 successful years (1922-36), is now a Hollywood hotelman (The Garden of Allah). Said he: "They asked me if I could find people here who would want to put money in to buy shares. They hoped I would return at the head of a wagonload of American gold. [The manager] came to me and said, 'Tiens! My friend, give me the best juice of your brains...