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...order to keep down the damned lopsidedness of your incoming mail I'm contributing my bit to the stack of isolationist and pacifist letters that you will surely receive. . . . If this is the only letter you receive to chalk up on the calm side of your War Score Board, I'll have to start thinking about that two-by-four island in the Caribbean again...
...harried British troops scurried back across the Channel last week, leaving the Nazis in sight of the chalk cliffs of Dover, Britons all over the far-flung Empire looked anxiously to their arms. No exceptions, Canadians from the Yukon to the St. Lawrence eyed their slow-moving war-expansion program askance, clamored vociferously for action, still more action...
...Reynaud, a thrifty man, had a 21-year-old map in his office. Instead of buying a new one, he kept up with history by marking Germany's acquisitions in red chalk, Russia's in yellow. In the photograph Germany and Russia looked like one. The censor did not like it, ordered the map retouched. (In the first copies of the photograph of the Welles-Reynaud conversations which reached the U. S., the map was blanked out entirely.) L'Illustration, more concerned with art than geography, sketched in Europe's frontiers with considerable inaccuracy. The borders...
...Masters-shot a 67 that included a prodigious six-under-par 30 for the second nine. It was the lowest nine-hole score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Few minutes later, along came unheralded Lloyd Mangrum to sink a 30-ft. putt on the home green and chalk up a record-breaking, eight-under-par 64 (32-32), probably the most amazing 18 holes of competitive golf ever played...
...makes them work for their pay. One of the few: Trick Billiardist Charley Peterson, who has lectured on billiards at Harvard, whose business card reads "show me a shot I can't make." Sample Peterson shot: standing a half-dollar on its rim between two cubes of chalk in the centre of the table, sending it to the cushion and back between the cubes, with...