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...took a top hat full of feathers to stuff one ball. They are a wee bit hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from the bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this chap Philip had with golf clubs as Stradivari with his violins. There is nothing sweeter than some of his sticks. Fact is, every one of them I got is a treasure. Thank the Lord golf sticks can't be turned out like ice boxes. . . ." The Virginia gentry who will soon have...
...good British answer to this would be: "My dear old chap, I suppose you know you're talking rubbish!" But Chief British Delegate Sir John Simon was not in good form at the moment. Instead up rose charming Senor Salvador de Madariaga, the Spanish Chief Delegate. Sure of the ovation he was about to receive, he asked: ''May I tell a story of how the animals met to discuss disarmament...
...have a new and worthy child. Are we, then, to turn an old Eli trick and "leave a bastard son on the stops of Durfy"? Or are we to befriend and act as a father to this little fellow who is, after all, such a likeable and deserving chap...
...splendid audiences at the Universities, sometimes turning hundreds away. Daniel Frohman came to see us in the Westchester County Recreation centre. You know his brother Charles, the chap who went down on the Titanic got me to first come to this country way back in 1906." Then suddenly, "See that girl there. . . She's Edith Mayor, neice of Miss Edythe Wynne Mathison. We starred her in "Everyman." He also pointed out Frederic Sargent, Russell Thorndike and Miss Llewellyn...
Interesting among ancient traditions of the sheet is the "rubber da rag" (read the paper) anecdote. The story is told of a new man in the ad alley, a chap who was assigned the job of setting up an ad for one of Butte's big department stores. This man had begun his task when it occurred to him that perhaps the store in question employed individual makeup and type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest...