Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first round of the $10,000 Los Angeles Open. Shortly after noon, Ellsworth Vines shambled to the tee and drove off. It was a 250-yd. drive-but out-of-bounds. He tried again; his second ball went out. He was hooking badly. He tipped his cap to Jim Turnesa, who with Sam Snead made up the threesome. Drawled Vines: "Try it, Jim. Think I'll rest a while." A few minutes later, Vines got off a third try; it hooked too, but took a lucky bounce off a tree onto the fairway...
...accumulated more than a million dollars, a distinguished white mustache, a list of 40 miscellaneous clubs and societies (including the Bankers Club, National Association for the Protection of Roadside Beauty), and a bagful of curious ideas which he will dispense upon request. Last September, Davis, attired in a yachting cap, double-breasted blue jacket with a saucer-sized gold highway badge pinned on the inside, astounded his guests with the simple announcement: "You're looking at the next President of the United States." Later he disclosed that "I have the perfect defense against the atomic bomb...
Somerset Maugham - accompanied by his secretary, cook, housekeeper, butler and chauffeur-returned after long absence to his villa at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, found the second story pretty much a war ruin. He set himself a double deadline for April, hoped by then to have the place repaired and a book finished. A caller found him huddled by the fireplace, repairing a cold with hot grog. The book, said Maugham, would be "the last book of my life ... a romance . . ." and he meant not to dally. "I feel that when a man reaches my age [73 next month...
...Allen, the rolypoly RFC director, didn't want to be mad at anybody when the battle opened. But handsome, 39-year-old Attorney Clark Clifford, the President's counsel, ghostwriter and onetime naval aide, clamored to stand and fight. The Secretary of the Interior, huge J. A. ("Cap") Krug, agreed. So did Attorney General Tom Clark. So did the President...
What, More Millions? News of the World has now set its cap for 12,000,000 readers, though it guesses-perhaps accurately-that it already reaches all the scandal-lovers in sight. To find 5,000,000 more subscribers, it intends to add more news of politics and world affairs, fields where its coverage is now good but short. Already it has dipped a bashful toe into Conservative politics. Shy, wealthy Philip Gordon Dunn, 41, its Canadian-born chairman and a major shareholder, would probably go Tory all the way if he were not afraid of offending his Socialist readers...