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...CROQUET PLAYER-H. G. Wells- Viking...
...longest driver in golf, wore the same green socks every day, washing them himself at night. His conviction that they brought him luck was not contradicted by victories over Henry Picard, Harold McSpaden, Craig Wood. Wild Bill Melhorn appeared with a putter that had a head like a croquet mallet. With it he putted well enough to be two up with four to play in his semi-final match with Denny Shute. Shute won on the 36th green. Next morning he and Thomson went out on the fragrant No. 2 course at Pinehurst, to play the final of the Professional...
...except where a scholar might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park, Fla., far from where that tormented artist ever thought of traveling. Last week two more neglected literary treasures made their appearance. Both were of modest historical significance, both...
Nevertheless, undiscovered Boswell items were apparently so thickly scattered around his great-great-grandson's home that they all but got under the feet of guests. When Lady Talbot gave a house party in 1930, another mass of Boswell's papers was found in an old croquet box. This batch included the manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, half again as long as the previously published work and the most valuable Boswell manuscript thus far discovered. Last week, 163 years after it was written, Boswell's full Journal was published...
...shell game, palms off his ward as heiress to the town's biggest fortune. By the time it has been established that she really is an heiress, W. C. Fields has had time to execute several of his most celebrated routines. He gets tangled up with a croquet set, makes a fox-terrier talk, sells five bottles of sassafras tonic to a distracted yokel who wants only one, delivers as a tagline the immortal motto: "Never give a sucker an even break...