Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to go out were Johnny Fischer and Ray Billows, defeated by Charley Yates and Johnny Goodman respectively on the second day. "Well, Johnny, it's better to be lucky than good," drawled Atlanta's Yates, the team's clown, after he had ousted Fischer by laying him a dead stymie on the 19th green. In the third round, Captain Ouimet was nosed out on the last hole by hard-hitting Cecil Ewing, one of Ireland's best. On the fourth day, a lashing gale and pounding rain swept even sturdy Johnny Goodman off his balance...
...runner-up in 1932, a semifinalist in 1935 and 1936. Last year he finally won the Amateur to become the first golfer since Jones to win both the Open and Amateur. He has broken 64 records and won 60 tournaments in his career. In one department Goodman has a better record than Jones: he has made six holes-in-one in his lifetime, while Jones has made only...
...Milles worked serenely in his three Cranbrook studios, pictures of his first clay models for the Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri were published in LIFE. Francis D. Healy, elderly chairman of St. Louis's Municipal Art Commission, saw them and snorted that the fountain would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony" (TIME, Aug. 9). For Sculptor Milles' wave-naked Tritons, Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, suggested trousers. Finally the Star-Times took a poll of public opinion, found plenty of people who agreed with the two indignant commissioners about "art" which had no fully...
...year-old sweetheart, Donald Carroll, that she was pregnant, they went to a cinema to talk it over. There the feature film, Mayerling (TIME, Sept. 20), in its tragic story of the death pact of Archduke Rudolf of Austria and the young Baroness Marie Vetsera, offered a better solution than anything their frantic minds could think of. So Donald got his father's pistol, shot Charlotte dead, but lost his nerve when it came to killing himself. Last week a New York murder trial jury heard this story, after almost three hours' deliberation found Donald "not guilty...
...been pretty rough on Stevenson-adding a blonde Kozatsky dancer to the Soviet's Treasure Island (TIME, Jan. 31), flaunting an unimagined Hollywood ingenue in a Technicolored sarong in Ebb Tide (TIME, Nov. 29)-but in Kidnapped, R. L. S. takes the count. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck. the better to display a fine figure of a lass named Arleen Whelan, has shifted many of the novel's best scenes to strange and shadowy positions, has relegated to the attic the memorable ball-and-cutlass siege of the Brig Covenant's roundhouse, has made storied Patriot Alan Breck...