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...around Robert Tyre Jones Jr. every minute shared that uniform wish-to see him hit the ball. To see him win the fourth and final event of his tremendous campaign to take all four major championships of the world in one year-or to be on hand if some freak of luck, or the sudden spurt of an inferior opponent put him out-these were minor considerations. They did not expect to see him play his best golf, for great golf develops only under pressure, and there is no amateur in the world who stands a chance with Jones...
...Navy's first accidents in fiscal 1931 occurred last week at Philadelphia?a freak crackup. Three flyers took off in a Martin bomber for parachute tests, with 200-lb. dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...
Following his economy program (TIME, April 14) Publisher Hearst has now tabooed all such ornaments, all "freak" typography. Not even Arthur Brisbane's '"Today" column is exempt. Hearstpapers are expected thus to save $100,000 this year in composing room time, solely through relieving linotype operators of calculating indentations, counting lines...
...great-grandfather's name was von Beneckendorf, but this ancestor's eccentric great-uncle von Hindenburg left him some money on condition that he add "und von Hindenburg" to his "von Beneckendorf." Never before, perhaps, did a "freak will" succeed so well...
...novelty of war pictures was gone. The true trouble was that All Quiet had been injudiciously heralded as the great epic of the War. Courageous and vivid as it was, the audience did not find it, of its kind, as startling as The Big Parade. All Quiet is a freak, almost a monstrosity among pictures...