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KENNETH ROBERTS Kennebunk Beach...
...Andrews is the holy home of golf, but 30 miles up the coast, where the wind blows just as hard over a rolling sea of dunes, heather and beach grass, lies the longest, toughest championship course in Scotland, 7,200-yd. Carnoustie. Thither from their triumph over Great Britain's Ryder Cup team (TIME, July 12) last week went the ablest U. S. Ryder Cup squad in years, vowing to wrest from the British their Open championship, exclusively U. S. property from...
Singing Marine (Warner Bros.). Having successfully sung his way through West Point and Annapolis in previous films, Dick Powell now tries his voice on the U. S. Marine Corps. As a shy, likable Arkansas rookie he is drafted for a weenie roast on the beach at San Diego, innocently sings the leathernecks' sweethearts into acquiescence. For this patriotic service he is rewarded with a trip to Manhattan and a radio tryout on what is obviously Major Bowes's amateur hour. Managed by Aeneas Phinney (Hugh Herbert), he embarks upon a U. S. radio career as the "Singing Marine...
...reformer who went on the stump for Upton Sinclair's EPIC last year, long-faced, sober Pastor Allen explained: "The residents of this community are working every possible day to make up for the worry during the Depression. ... I believe they should be free to go to the beach or mountains Sunday without feeling it is wrong. . . . Jesus consistently taught that man was to have preference over any creed, custom, dogma...
...Author-Kenneth Roberts. . . Down-Easter from way back, was born in Kennebunk, Me. in 1885, still spends his summers at Kennebunk Beach near his great & good friend Booth Tarkington, After graduating from Cornell (1908) he journalized on the Boston Post, Puck, Life. During the War he served as a captain in the Intelligence Section of the Siberian Expeditionary Force. For nine years after the Armistice he was roving correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, in which his stories are now usually serialized. With his wife and fox terrier, Roberts winters in a telephoneless Italian villa, works a heavy schedule...