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Bunkers & Bumps. The most famous golf course in the world does not show all its hazards immediately. It stretches out like a long and gnarled shepherd's crook-so narrow that there are seven double greens with both outgoing and incoming pins-but the newcomer is often vaguely disappointed at his first view to find that it does not look particularly formidable. What the newcomer soon learns: 1) there is hardly a level lie on the course, and 2) the holes are defended by some of the most fiendish bunkers in existence...
James E. Barrett, Jr. '51, Philip L. Isenberg '51, Marvin S. Eiger '51, Richard T. Povill '53, William G. Crook, Jr. '51, and Ira R. Peterman '52 were nominated as candidates to fill the vacancy on the Council left by the resignation of Dominique H. Wyant...
...hospital where the here finds work, inject the usual amount of spice into commonplace roles. Each manages to appear frightened when a man's hand is at her throat, and each manages to hold a kiss until the director calls for a blackout. John Hoyt, the master crook who happens to be carried into the hospital just as the hero begins his job there, acts both sick and wicked. Signe Hasso, his ex-wife, leaven no doubt that she prefers his money to his life...
...pointed up the fact that the five-percent investigation was far from being a Teapot Dome. It was much lower-grade stuff-a record of bumbling, chiseling, and shabby wirepulling. Blundering, clownish Harry Vaughan was no credit to his uniform or his position, but nobody had proved him a crook. And with that, the investigating committee adjourned for at least a month...
Democrat Irving has been the duly elected representative of Harry S. Truman and 250,000 other constituents of Missouri's Fourth District since last November. A fortnight ago, in a court suit, 85 members of his union suggested that he was also a crook...