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Perfect Creases. In the other bracket, breezing through his first five rounds, Frank Stranahan ran into Ray Billows in the quarterfinal. A big partisan crowd trailed the two golfers around the 6,617-yd. course. One of Bachelor Stranahan's pretty fans had no trouble predicting the winner. Said she, loud enough for the players to hear: "Frankie's pants have perfect creases. That other guy looks like a bum." Replied Billows affably: "Lady, I've got a nicely pressed suit in my locker -and I'll wear it tomorrow in my semifinal match." Stranahan...
Died. Oley Speaks, 74, shy bachelor composer and longtime A.S.C.A.P. director (1924-43), whose 250 songs and ballads included music for such oldtime favorites as Sylvia (his own favorite) and On the Road to Mandalay (he had never been there); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...turned up once more in the papers in 1921 when, out of an amateur interest in physics, he offered $5,000 for the best simple explanation of the law of relativity.* Last week, when his lawyers opened his will (he died last month at 90), they learned that Bachelor Eugene Higgins had left $40 million to four universities (Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia) "for the general advancement of science through investigation, research, and experimentation...
...polling booths in his home town, Trois-Rivières. He shook hands till his fingers cramped, greeting voters by their first names. Time & again his henchmen restrained him as he reached in his pocket for quarters for moppets: "Not on election day, Maurice." At 6:30 p.m. Bachelor Duplessis, exhausted, went home to his sister's house and tumbled into...
Before the jet engine came into the picture (like a young wife smashing the habits of a sot-in-his-ways bachelor), airframe designers were screaming for more power. Now they have it, they do not know quite what to do with it. The power-plant men are doing the screaming now. The great engine builders (Pratt & Whitney, Allison, General Electric, Westinghouse) are working on more powerful engines. "Get busy," they warn the airframe men, "and design some airframes that can keep up with...