Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wouldn't be playing golf at all; even with it, his lame back (slipped vertebra) needed two weeks of rest in every six. His hook off the tee continually landed him in tall grass, behind trees. Yet crowd-drawing, drawling Sammy had somehow managed to stand the winter circuit troupe on its par-cracking ear. Ever since his 26-month hitch in the Navy, the once temperamental Samuel Jackson Snead had played with a brand new and compelling confidence...
...years Jesuit St. Louis University's chapter of Phi Beta Pi, a medical fraternity, had put new pledges through this initiation ritual. Robert Perry, a Navy V12 trainee, was no different from the others. But when his turn came last week, a spark caused by a short circuit in the coil ignited ether fumes from the bottle of collodion, set off a flash of blue flame that enveloped him. Perry leaped up wildly, ran smack into a wall. Several of the brothers grabbed him, rubbed out the flames with their hands, then rushed him to the University...
...January 1944 Frank Hoch of Chicago was away from home, in the Army. When he was discharged and went home, he found his wife Lorraine two months pregnant. She told him his only rival was a test tube, but he sued for divorce anyway. Last fortnight in Chicago, Circuit Judge Michael Feinberg granted Frank Hoch his divorce-but on other incriminating evidence. Artificial insemination, he ruled, is legally insufficient for a divorce on grounds of adultery...
...planes, a lone B-29 droned around. It carried no bombs: its job was to photograph the results of the carrier planes' bombing. Aboard the Superfort was a Navy observer, Lieut, (j.g.) David C. McMillin, listening to the carrier air group commanders and pilots over the inter-plane circuit. He heard...
Climaxing a second three-way playoff, Company C routed Lowell Wednesday afternoon, 40 to 28, and thereby became undisputed champion of the Intramural circuit. At the same time, the Standish Freshmen stepped out into a half-game lead in a second House basketball season...