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...daylight V.F.W. funmaking provoked fewer hooligans. Proudly the veterans of four wars, 30,000 strong, paraded for five hours through a confetti-tossing mass of cheering New Englanders. Bostonians managed a grin at the placard behind a strutting Lone Star bugle corps: "The horse Paul Revere rode came from Texas...
...Easy Way. In February 1945, Heidt bought a faltering restaurant in Beverly Hills for $65,000. A month later he bought a glorified auto court (the Lone Palm Hotel) in Palm Springs for $225,000. (Last fortnight he refused to sell...
...expected trouble at Baltimore, lone "Southern" city on the circuit, but got more at Syracuse, where the players ragged him a bit. Says he: "When I didn't pay any attention, they dropped it." He stays at the same hotel as his teammates in every city but Baltimore, rides in a compartment by himself on trains, gets along well with Manager Clay Hopper, an ex-Mississippian. Robinson neither drinks nor smokes. In 100 games with Montreal this year, he has made 133 hits, stolen 33 bases, scored 100 runs. With him as its top attraction, Montreal's paid...
...trademark flourished. Every cowboy, fake and real, from Buffalo Bill to the Lone Ranger, wore a Stetson. After the Boer War, famed General R. S. S. Baden-Powell ordered 10,000 Stetsons for his South African police, setting the style for thousands of police and military institutions to follow (including Canada's Mounties, the Texas Rangers, Fiorello LaGuardia). The Oxford English Dictionary picked up the name Stetson as a synonym...
Last week the Marvita chugged into tiny Hebron, most northern of bleak Labrador's mission-trading posts. Parka-clad voters padded aboard to mark ballots, picking one of the five candidates-a fisherman, a clergyman, an ex-Ranger, two wireless operators-as Labrador's lone representative at next month's national convention in St. John...