Word: brande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near the Stoke Poges churchyard in Buckinghamshire where Thomas Gray in the 18th Century wrote an elegy, there is a brand-new golf course. There Joseph Patrick Kennedy on the fourth day after his arrival as U. S. Ambassador to Britain (see p. 19) scored a hole-in-one. Dazed, he exclaimed, according to British reporters: "Just fancy! I had to come all the way over here...
...this spot, and he speaks my kind of lingo, which is more than I can say for some. It is his accent which lures me, I decide. Afterwards I ankle down the street for a beer or two, but I stipulate that it must not be Mr. Robinson's brand. His is not so good...
...trouncing Joseph Richard Leonard of Tuxedo, N. Y. in straight games in the final, 15-6, 15-8, 15-4; in Manhattan. In two years of stiff competition, during which he has won the U.S. and Canadian Singles twice, the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament twice and the brand-new open competition for the Clarence Pell Cup, Champion Grant has not lost a match, has lost only four games...
...Focus Editor Leslie T. White managed last week to put his brand-new monthly picture magazine in the news by getting himself indicted for criminal libel by a Texas grand jury. Once one of California's best and most disillusioned detectives, Editor White wrote a modest best seller (Me, Detective) in 1936. In Focus, promoted through stock subscriptions, he began a pictorial crusade against national evils, for his first picked San Antonio's pecan-shelling industry...
...research, not teaching. Last week Researcher Carmichael, only 39, became a college president. He will take over as seventh president of Massachusetts' Tufts College in September, succeeding the late Dr. John Albert Cousens. But Dr. Carmichael is not abandoning a good thing. Tufts, too, will build him a brand-new, well-equipped laboratory for research in sensory physiology and sensory psychology...