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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes july 1985 Esir places husband wife act brings Down the hotel the Wade Hampton a landmark for 45 went Down in a controlled Heap in after a bugler played taps and a husband wife demolition team set off a drum Roll of 350 pounds of the redbrick building was about the 800th Structure Jack and Freddie Loizeaux have lev eled in controlled implosions in 28 years As controlled demolition of they also brought Down a sister the Colum about two blocks away in both downtown the last of the state capitals grand Ball room were cleared to make Way for sky scrap South Carolinas tallest 26 stories of Glass and steel housing will stand on the Wade Hampton site by the Wade located across from the state once was the cites largest hotel but in recent years was used As a dormitory for the University of South said she and her 70yearold husband retired last but they still direct some jobs so their children can stay Home with their but at about the same time the Wade Hampton went their eldest was imploding a 15story hotel in hundreds of people gathered to carrying binoculars and Lawn chairs As close As Security would it looked As if a football game was going a policeman wearing a hard hat and sporting a jewelled dynamite Sticks said that despite their Long the Columbia implosion carried a first the taps sendoff from the Bugle of 25year old Everett head hampers rolling pin toss it just want a Good Day for throwing bricks or rolling pins All Over the efforts in the 26th annual International Brick and rolling pin throw didst reach re Cord Levels because of the said Mary director of the temperatures across Oklahoma climbed into the with High As american Bryan Dervin heaved a Brick 118 2 inches to easily outdistanced australian and Canadian competitors but falling Short of the Tina Newman of won the rolling pin throw with a toss of 114 3 the world record is 156 4 Britain placed first in team the contest is held in towns named Stroud in the United England and Australia and took place in All but where competitors let Fly with bricks and pins on july the Stroud International Brick and rolling pin throw began in when two men from the British and Oklahoma strouds realized there were Brick manufacturing plants in both two years volunteered 2 Pound rolling pins made there and the women began joining in the Joyces death mask bought an Irish aircraft company says it has bought a death mask of the writer James Joyce for an undisclosed sum and will display it in his native the mask of who died in Switzerland in was sent for Sale by an unidentified woman to soothe the auction House had expected it to bring to but said guinness peat aviation bought it privately before the guinness peat aviation Sells and leases aircraft and is based at Shannon International Airport on Ireland Southwest a spokesman said the mask would be displayed in the Shannon statuesque Sfa fue a photo British actress Joan who plays Alexis in the american soap opera gets a private preview of her Wax likeness to be displayed at Madame Tussaud Wax museum in regular Price our Price Stephen King i regular Price our Price it nonfiction title Skeleton Crew fiction title save 25 or More on bestsellers from the new York times bestseller listing at most its bookstores  
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