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John Norton Smith is an extremely dour Scot from Fifeshire where normally he is a carpenter*. No brilliance attends his game but only the grimmest determination. His idiosyncrasies: chalking the face of his wooden clubs with blue chalk, waxing the handle of his irons before the difficult shot. To Cyril Tolley who won it at Muirfield nine years ago again went the championship. He, a links behemoth, has obtained most fame from his prodigious drives. In 1923 at Troon he drove to the green on a 350-yard hole. Last week his drives were still spectacular and, rare...
Eyeing the quarrels and troubles of Russia's Communist leaders was elegant Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich Romanov, from his French villa at Saint-Briac. Chief pretender to the throne of Ah The Russias...
Grand Duke Cyril admitted for the first time that the monarchists have a counter revolutionary organization at work in the Soviet Union...
Grand Duke Cyril's suspicions of internal trouble in Russia were proved with startling effect by a late despatch from Moscow. By order of the Stalin government, three former imperial and Kerensky officials, recently high Soviet railway and mining officials, were sentenced to be shot dead for obstructing Communist operation of railways and of the gold and platinum industry-in other words, for "counter-revolutionary plotting for the restoration of Capitalism." Condemned were: N. K. von Meck, onetime chairman of the privately owned Moscow-Kazan Railway; A. F. Velitchko, head of the transport department of the Imperial Staff during...
...Other holders of this record: Dan Kelly, Howard Drew, Charley Paddock, Cyril Coaffee, Chester Bowman...