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...golfers in the U. S. turn their hands to bridge and the radio, the majority of the jobless professionals go south. Some are hired to accompany rich club members to their winter playgrounds. Some find comfortable berths at flourishing hotels. But a goodly portion embark on one of the most extraordinary tours in the realm of sport...
Hardheaded, slippery Hero Ulysses left home with his mother's blessing when he was six. At 18 he had been a bootblack, a harbor scavenger, a hashish peddler in the brothels of Alexandria. His next move was to embark for Africa with a stock of liquor for the British army in the Sudan. At Khartoum he saw Chinese Gordon killed by the Moslem Mahdi, became the Mahdi's finance minister and political adviser for ten precarious years that included his forced marriage to a captive nun in an obscenely burlesqued ceremony. Meanwhile he had become Kitchener...
...magic seed" which might make grass grow under the trees on the White House lawn, the President asked him to send for some. At week's end, he made his attitude even clearer. Leaving Congress to struggle along in Washington, he boarded a train for Florida, there to embark on a week's fishing trip in the Caribbean. In the party that boarded the Potomac at Miami were WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, to help the President evolve a plan for modernizing anti-trust legislation...
Then, if tradition is to be carried forward, he will embark on a long introductory talk. He will tell his jittering audience that the toughest job that faces a Varsity Manager all year is to pick the Sophomore winner, and the choice this year has been exceptionally difficult. He will end by handing out a letter to each of the quartet which will inform them of the outcome of the competition...
Every day part of the 28 students in the course embark in their sturdy oyster boats and coast out over the surface of Fresh Pond, which is the reserve water supply of Cambridge. Once out they use their special equipment to plumb the depths and bring up the vegetable and animal life which is the object of their study. In addition they use special equipment to take temperature readings at various depths in he pond...