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...neat in a smartly tailored grey suit, the 62-year-old reformer sat stiffly in court while a 30-year-old lawyer defended her virtue. "But this affair was a command," shouted the young man. "Besides, Von Krohn was 70 years old at the time." "You are very young, confrère" murmured the opposing lawyer suavely. "A man of 70 is not necessarily repulsive. Why, I myself...
...work," grinned fun-loving Golfer Demaret (rhymes with croquette) as he pocketed $700 first-prize money, bringing his eight weeks' earnings to $6,077. Though he had won five of the season's nine tournaments and earned twice as much as his nearest rival, Jimmy's confrères as well as the galleries saluted him last week. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow," they chorused...
While Snead was living up to the expectations of the gallery, his confrères were reassuring experienced observers who know that golf's uncertainties make such performances by favorites wildly improbable. On the very first hole, Al Watrous, home pro at Oakland Hills, took two strokes to get out of a trap which, in innumerable unimportant rounds, he had invariably avoided. Bert McDowell, an able amateur from Baton Rouge, knocked three balls into the lake on the 16th hole, took three putts for an n, posted a 91, high score for the first day. Young Frank Strafaci...
...take-off so that a good jumper lands beyond it, Norway's 21-year-old Birger Ruud. Olympic champion in 1932, jumped 269 ft., won an impromptu tournament. Ablest all-round skier on the U. S. team, Richard Durrance, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for practice ahead of his confrères, placed 18th - an achievement more creditable than it seems because his specialty is not jumping but downhill racing. Major development in the rise of U. S. winter sports in the last eight years has been the sudden, inexplicable boom in skiing. Increase in the popularity of skiing has been...
...presents the sort of symptoms she is accustomed to deal with in her patients. Having healed the suicide fits of an heiress (Maureen O'Sullivan) by treating her sweetheart (Louis Hayward) for advanced dipsomania, she finds her maternal instincts for the latter in a state of overstimulation. Her confrère (Herbert Marshall) convinces her that what she mistakes for Love is merely spiritual chicken pox. This is the climax...