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...People are increasingly turning away from the waste, the uncertainty and the futility of the present Administration at Washington. If given a direct choice at the fall election between good government and bad government, there can be no doubt as to their decision." As the sole Presidential entrant in Pennsylvania's Republican primaries last week, Senator William Edgar Borah received the compliment of a pencil scratch from more than 300,000 voters. Only 20 of the State's 75 convention delegates had pledged themselves in advance to support the popular choice, were last week reported eager to weasel...
...despite the fact that he had jumped only once before in competition, took third place in the ski jump, with a distance of 46 feet. He also took fourth place in the slalom and sixth in the downhill race. At the same time teammate Charlie Rogers though not an entrant in the jump placed seventh in both the slalom and the downhill competitions...
...tournament is generally selected by members of the squad and other advanced players while the B contests are chosen by players of less skill. The choice, however, remains with the entrant...
...Newcastle, Ireland, 64 temperamental lady golfers gathered to play for the British championship. Agitation overcame the only U. S. entrant, Grace Amory of West Palm Beach, in her match against the French champion, Francine Tollon. On the 10th green she flopped on the ground, squeaked "oh my, how exhausting the tight matches are," lost on the 17th. Sheep-faced Diana Fishwick, who was champion in 1930, broke the course record in a qualifying round, got put out of the tournament by one Clarry Tiernan who, perturbed by her achievement, ran to hide in the dressing room. Before the final...
...City alone receive 200,000 telephone calls daily from bettors asking racing information. Most valuable ingredient in such publications is a feature, completely unintelligible to uninitiate readers, called a "past performance chart" which for every important race run in the U. S. reveals the complete competitive history of each entrant...