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...green. At 14, the Old Man was short and chubby. Young Bobby is nearly six feet tall, weighs 195 Ib. At 14, the Old Man was already a perfectionist, with eight years of painstaking practice behind him. When he made a sour shot, he would turn purple, talk purple, fling his club toward the next county. Young Bobby is happy-go-lucky, prone to grin rather than groan when he misses a three-foot putt. At 14, the Old Man could break 70.* Young Bobby is happy if he can break...
...star who really strutted her antique stuff was Mae Murray. Her platinum blondness and pouting "bee-stung" lips first got rave notices in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908. One of the wildest waltzes in cinema history was her fling with John Gilbert in The Merry Widow in 1925. Since then she has fluctuated between a fortune of $3,000,000 and, she claims, nights on a park bench...
...course, it is true that unexpected events of the past year have played a decided part in our change of policy. But it must be admitted that propaganda, which the newspapers have been so happy to fling at their public, has not been absent either. We must look back to the days of September, 1939, when this inevitable war broke out. Then we looked at it through clear eyes, eyes not blinded by war-mongers and fanatic speechmakers. We know then that the United States should do everything in her power to stay out of this war, that entering...
...Japan will be compelled to fight the United States if our sister nation on the shores of the Pacific enters the war in Europe. I fling this challenge to America: If she in her contentment is going to blindly and stubbornly stick to the status quo in the Pacific, then we will fight America. For it would be better to perish than to maintain the status...
...Mexican air that Azcarraga wants to keep tidy has many peculiar aspects. Politics provides one of them. During the recent election General Juan Andreu Almazan was never permitted to fling a single amigos mios into a microphone, although his chief rival. General Manuel Avila Camacho, used XEFO, the 5,000-watt official outlet of Cardenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution. Although Don Juan complained that XEFO was breaking the law prohibiting any station from broadcasting political controversies, the station management pointed out with fine Latin logic that as long as it restricted its mikes to Camacho and withheld them...