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...Dreams. With the increasing pool of skilled workers, payrolls are swelling at desert plants and industries. The wartime installations, now permanent, compete for workers with newer desert arrivals such as the $50 million complex of chemical and metal plants at Henderson, Nev. Aircraft workers, fleeing the smog and traffic of Los Angeles, find work with North American, Lockheed or Northrop at new assembly and testing plants on the Mojave...
Homemade Ballad. One night in the Bucket of Blood saloon at Virginia City, Nev., Emrich heard a miner bellow, "Who shot Maggie in the freckle?" Back to his room he went to compose a ballad of his own that was eventually brought back to him from Australia as an original...
...game he pitched for the Verdi (Nev.) Ramblers against the Fallen (Nev.) Merchants in the Sierra Nevada League he will never forget. Verdi's starting pitcher walked the first three men up. "Then they took him out for wildness and put me in," Frank recalls. Frank's best pitch in those days was a sidearm fast ball, thrown with a kind of rural free delivery-sometimes the ball went all over the countryside. His first pitch caught the batter in the back, forcing in a run. His second hit the next batter, and forced in another...
...bomb explosions in mid-Pacific last year were awesome proof of how big the atom can blow. The 14 test shots at Yucca Flat, Nev., programmed between Feb. 1 and this week, are equally sensational proof of how small the weapon can get-small enough to fit the conventional artillery pieces, bomb racks, torpedo tubes and antiaircraft rifles of the U.S. armed forces and provide them with a jump in firepower as revolutionary as the introduction of gunpowder...
Married. Lorraine Manville, sixtyish, who split a $20-million asbestos fortune with her brother, much-married Tommy Manville: and Charles Baxter, 31, TV actor; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Las Vegas, Nev...