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...name, as 100,000 readers of Author Will Durant's Story of Philosophy might now guess, was Baruch de Espinosa-Spinoza, for short. "With the judgment of the angels and the sentence of the saints" he was anathematized, execrated, cursed, cast out and cut off by the exiled people of Israel. His studies, once the pride of the synagogue, had led him to a mechanistic philosophy of life. He was not the first original thinker Jewry had disowned. Spinoza secluded himself and set up as an optometrist, a grinder of fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe...
Playing over the famed North Course of the Los Angeles Country Club last week, Harry Cooper, new 21-year-old English professional of the Tenison Park Club (Dallas, Tex.), scored 279 (nine under par), led a field including Joe ("Trick Shot") Kirkwood, Al Espinosa, "Auld" John Black, and Amateurs George von Elm and Charles Chung (Hawaiian champion). Cooper collected the juiciest of typically Los Angelic prize-money...