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...close of last week's pageant, attended by Queen Elizabeth, St. Albans' headmaster, ruddy-faced Thomas William Marsh, allowed himself a nostalgic sigh. Said he: "St. Albans will be very dull next week, when everyone returns to bowler hats...
Haan, a lean, rock-jawed preacher, refuses to say outright whether he has ever seen a Hollywood movie. But he knows from reports, he says, that they are loaded with "sex, drunkenness and crime ... a hindrance to the Kingdom of God." A cigar-smoker and a bowler, Haan denies that his people are narrow. "We are as broadminded as the Word of God allows us to be. . . . [But] we don't want movie actors and actresses to be the educators of our children...
Proud, tubby little Andy Varipapa, at 53 the oldest man in the tournament, liked to puff out his gorilla chest and announce that he is the world's greatest bowler (TIME, May 5). A good many of the experts disagreed. They would rather bet their money on glum, gum-chewing Joe Wilman, 41, who was bowling man of the year in 1946 and went about his trade in very businesslike fashion. In Chicago's drafty Madison Street Armory last week, Andy and Joe staged a seesaw duel that made the bowling experts forget anything they had seen before...
Wilman worked calmly. He is what the trade calls a "spot bowler." Starting from the right of the alley, he takes four precise steps and fires for the one-three pocket. He once had one three-game score of 811. But this time he could not shake off Andy. The lead changed hands 14 times...
...then he strutted up the line before the crowd, asking triumphantly: "Who said I wasn't a man? I'm a man, huh? I'm a man." Even the experts had to agree; he had made a good case for himself as 1948's Bowler of the Year...